It's a penny a bushel for corn, and right now it's about 6 cents per bushel on beans. 

If you're paying 11,000 in checkoff, Just playing that it's $5000 soybeans and $5000 corn, that's around 83,000 bu of soybeans worth around 1.9 million, and 500,000 bu of corn worth around 2 million. I'm sure that the numbers and bushels and values are off some. But you want someone to feel sorry about you bitching about taking 11,000 out of 4 million dollars gross when you basically have an Ethanol market and a biodiesel market because of it? You're getting things like Nematode resistant beans because of it? That and USDA. That's 0.2% of your gross.  I'd say that's a pretty good investment and return. Of course your mileage may vary, I suppose.But, I suppose, you just create your own markets. Help find new uses for the things you produce.