The staff from the different commodity checkoffs that I've worked with are highly qualified and more than worth their salaries.  The difficult part of this is educating everyone on the details.  Many things I didn't know.  Like private sales of dairy bull calves are supposed to be submitted and etc. Monthly or yearly.  Your respective organizations should have details available soon if they don't already.  Notice the extra .50 is refundable if you care to do that.  I'm guessing that is why it passed. 

 If the referendum passes, collection will begin March 1, 2017. The Iowa beef checkoff will be mandatory, but refunds will be available to interested producers.