India has long manipulated its food and agriculture market in an effort to protect inefficient producers while concurrently feeding its hungry. However, now its analogous effort in the manufacturing sector is raising concerns. Checkoff Trouble Nearly a dozen different organizations have been tussling for three years over the future cost and management structure of the U.S. beef checkoff program. Now USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack says he is going to produce a new blueprint, but he made the announcement at a meeting of the National Farmers Union (NFU), an organization that dropped out of the restructuring effort because it was getting nowhere with its more radical view on change. NFU wants the checkoff to be fully refundable, which would be li...