Reports on a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the Mushroom Council. "Agricultural marketing campaigns totaling $600 million or more are at the center of a US Supreme Court decision last week that found farmers and growers cannot be forced to pay into programs that are solely advertising-based."
"Agricultural marketers, rural advertisers and advertising agencies in the Midwest are feeling the effects of the depressed U.S. farm economy. Farm billings at the 50 largest agricultural agencies are projected to drop 11.5% in 1986. Farm advertisers increasingly are cutting back their ad budgets."
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection.
"Joseph Gallo Farms has asked the federal court to eliminate fees paid to the California Milk Advisory Board. The lawsuit contends that advertising for California cheese is a complete waste of money. The suite is the latest in a battle over the more than $300 million that farmers were required to pay during the past 4 years."
