Checkoff

• Agricultural checkoffs

• Denver Donnybrook Over Checkoff Control?

It wouldn't be a new year without the big players in the $80 million-per-year beef checkoff - the Cattlemen's Beef Board, the Federation of Qualified State Beef Councils and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - squaring off over checkoff money, programs and control. And so it is again as members of this tall-walker trinity gather Feb. 2 in Denver for the annual Cows and Cowboys Convention. (Its official name is longer and less descriptive.) This year's, like last year's, will feature bulls, bullies and, well

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 23, 2011

• 29 CFR 452.87 - Dues paid by checkoff.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 29: Labor

• Checkoff a Cash Cow for Cattlemen's Group

It's a safe bet that before March 1, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials never heard of the Cattle Producers of Louisiana. It's also a safe bet that by March 2, USDA bigwigs not only knew about the bayou boys, they also knew at least one of'em could write a mean letter. That letter, dated March 1 and sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, begins with a simple declarative sentence: "The Beef Checkoff is broken.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 27, 2011

• Checkoff Takeoff Thwarted

That didn't take long. Before most of the newspapers carrying last week's installment of this summer's most popular soap opera, "The Beef Checkoff Chronicles," could reach you, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association reined in its plan "to allow," it said in a June 25 press release, "the Federation of State Beef Councils an opportunity to clarify its role and intentions to all industry shareholders. For those of you who don't speak the arcane language of checkoffs, permit me to interpret:

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• August 18, 2010

• The Big Three Battle Over Checkoff Money

It wouldn't be a new year without the big players in the $80 million-per-year beef checkoff - the Cattlemen's Beef Board, the Federation of Qualified State Beef Councils and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - squaring off over checkoff money, programs and control. And so it is again as members of this tall-walker trinity gather Feb. 2 in Denver for the annual Cows and Cowboys Convention. (Its official name is longer and less descriptive.) This year's, like last year's, will feature bulls, bullies and, well ...

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• January 26, 2011

• Innovators: Beef Checkoff in Oklahoma

For years, Aaron Copland's orchestral Hoe-Down from the Rodeo ballet score has played merrily behind the announcer's voice on television commercials, prodding consumers to embrace the idea, "Beef - It's What's For Dinner. After the release of a recent dietary study, that slogan could change soon: "Beef - It's What's Good For Lowering Cholesterol."

• The Journal Record
• December 26, 2011

• Checkoff's Flip a Flop

You and I know that if we put the horse before the cart the chances of going anywhere are a million times better than if we put the cart first. This barnyard variant of Newton's Second Law is well understood by the hundreds of thousands of cowboys who are not members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association: horse first, cart second, giddyup.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• June 19, 2011

• Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D.C., - cap-and-trade, cuts in crop insurance, shrinking farm program budgets - I'll bet you a cup of coffee you cannot name the issue that recently united ag heavyweights as diverse as the American Farm Bureau and National Farmers Union. That issue is the proposed changes in governance at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association that will give it a virtual lock on the tens of millions of dollars spent each year by the mandatory beef checkoff.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• April 02, 2010

• Checkoff

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• Beef Checkoff to Ncba: Just Drop Dead

In a toughly worded statement June 22, the executive committee of the Cattlemen's Beef Board, the group created by Congress to collect and oversee the $1-per-head beef checkoff, served notice that it strongly backed the independence of the Federation of State Beef Councils in the ongoing debate over the checkoff's future. The Federation," noted the CBB "should be separate from any policy organization. ... The checkoff is owned by, and responsible to, all producers and importers, and no specific organization.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• August 16, 2010