Online from Capital Press. 2 pages., "Several agricultural organizations have gotten language included in the pending fiscal year 2017 House Agricultural Appropriations Bill asking USDA to exempt research and promotion boards funded by grower checkoff fees from federal public records law." The language argues the change is needed to focus producers' resources on research and promotion, rather than records services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09587
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Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Speech to the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership, University of Missouri, Columbia. 15 pages., Suggests that the answer is "...nobody. The farmer, as always, is his own man."
