Producers Weigh in on the Beef Checkoff
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Suggested Lead: As producers from all across the U.S. gathered in Denver for the 2008 cattle industry summer conference, numerous conversations were heard in the hallway ranging from input prices to consumer confidence to budgets. We stopped and chatted with a few of those producers and asked, since they were able to represent producers from their area at the conference, what fellow producers might want to know about their beef checkoff. We first caught up with David Dick, 150-head cow-calf operator from Sedalia, Mo., whose family has been in the business since 1824…tape.
Next we spoke with Merrell Breyer, 4th generation cow-calf operator from Richland, Mo., with 50 head of cattle...tape.
And finally, Zac Reich, Zap, N.D., who has a registered Angus operation with 280 cows, weighs in on the beef checkoff...tape.
To see more highlights from this year’s cattle industry summer conference and programs that checkoff dollars are invested in, visit www dot beef board meeting dot com (www.beefboardmeeting.com) or www dot my beef checkoff dot com (www.MyBeefCheckoff.com).
The Beef Checkoff Program was established as part of the 1985 Farm Bill. The checkoff assesses $1 per head on the sale of live domestic and imported cattle, in addition to a comparable assessment on imported beef and beef products. States retain up to 50 cents on the dollar and forward the other 50 cents per head to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board, which administers the national checkoff program, subject to USDA approval.
Funded by the Beef Checkoff.
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