OFF Act Is An Attack On American Agriculture

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has reintroduced the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act. According to NCBA Chief Executive Officer Colin Woodall, this deceptively named bill would undermine producers’ right to collectively invest in their industry through the self-funded commodity checkoff programs they have created and governed to support marketing, research and education for their products.

Woodall said the OFF Act would bury these programs under layers of unnecessary bureaucracy, prohibit them from working with industry partners and silence their ability to counter misleading or hostile narratives about agriculture.