Tag: Beef Checkoff
Letter: Independent cattlemen finally represented at checkoff hearing
Dave Hyde recounts his trip to the Ohio Department of Agriculture to deliver testimony on why the Ohio Beef Marketing plan needed to be eliminated.
What’s NCBA hiding in the checkoff closet?
If it's nothing, you should know. If it's something, that's an even greater reason for you to know. NCBA knows. You don't. Why?
Checkoff passed by Ky. beef producers
Kentucky beef cattle producers voted to assess themselves an additional $1 per head on cattle marketed in Kentucky in a statewide referendum held in November.
Want reform? Audit, please
Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack threatened to impose a second beef checkoff that would double the annual, non-refundable collections of the now-$80 million federal program if members of his reform effort didn't come to an agreement.
Ohio beef checkoff marketing plan approved
The Ohio Beef Council had to cut $35,000 from its marketing plan for 2013, but will invest $76,250 into beef checkoff programs in fiscal year 2013.
Sorting lies, distortions and lawsuits
Somewhere along the line, it became acceptable to bend and break the record of public figures and firms without any consequence whatsoever. Shortly thereafter,...
National beef ambassadors for 2012 announced
WOOSTER, Ohio -- John Weber (Minnesota), Kim Rounds (California), Arika Snyder (Pennsylvania), Rossie Blinson (North Carolina) and Emily Jack (Texas) were chosen as the 2012 National Beef Ambassador Team at the annual competition.
