This proposed rule would expand the contracting authority as established under the Beef Promotion and Research (Order). The Beef Research and Information Act (Act) requires that the Beef Promotion Operating Committee (BPOC) enter into contracts with established national non-profit industry-governed organizations including the Federation of State Beef Councils to implement programs of promotion, research, consumer information, and industry information. The Act does not define ``national non-profit industry governed organization,'' however, the Order states that these organizations must be governed by a board of directors representing the cattle or beef industry on a national basis and that they were active and ongoing prior to enactment of the Act. This proposed rule would change the dat...
... the implementation and conduct of Beef Checkoff programs if they have been active and ongoing for ...
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
Checkoff programs are a popular source of funding for charitable causes in states. While taxpayer contributions to programs funded by checkoffs are on the decline, state legislators continue to include checkoff programs in the broad-based income tax. Some of the most common checkoff programs include wildlife and conservation, political checkoffs, breast cancer research and awareness, child welfare and child care, funding for the Olympic team and donations to school districts.
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 ...
... Act is one in a long series of federal "checkoff" programs for promoting agricultural commodities. ...
On any given day in June, you can probably find a group of local dairy farmers who have taken time off from their duties to serve ice cream at a church social or town picnic. The farmers are members of the Dubuque County Dairy Association, a producer group that promotes dairy products locally. The association receives some funding for its promotional activities from the dairy checkoff program.
Six cattlemen, spread from New Mexico to Alabama, pressed the class-action lawsuit against Tyson/IBP in an Alabama court. The jury found Feb. 16 that Tyson has been manipulating cattle prices in violation of the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act - an antitrust law partly spurred by novelist Upton Sinclair's 1906 slaughterhouse exposé, The Jungle. "It's wonderful," says Mabel Dobbs, who runs 140 head of cattle on her family's 200-acre ranch near Weiser, Idaho. "In the last 20 years, what's happened in the meat industry is a tragedy - the bigger guys garner more and more control, and they manipulate the market, so it's harder for the small family operations to survive. Despite the antitrust law, with recent mergers and buyouts, the nation's three biggest meatpackers have taken over handlin...
...And many are challenging "checkoff" programs, in which the USDA imposes fees on sales...
An angry lawmaker has called for an audit into how programming fees and other administrative costs are eating into money coming in from voluntary checkoffs on driver's license and motor vehicle registration forms. The state rips off the needy. I am livid about this," said Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, because he believes the checkoff programs are truly worthwhile.
Tri-state taxpayers share the experience of cutting a check to Uncle Sam or getting a return this time of year, but thousands of them also use their income tax filing to boost worthy causes. It's done through checkoff programs authorized by the state legislatures, with the number of choices and kinds of beneficiaries as varied as the states that support them.
Beef might be what's for dinner, but who should pay for making that suggestion to American consumers? That's the question at the heart of arguments heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case involves what's called the beef checkoff program, in which cattle ranchers pay the federal government $1 per head when they sell their stock. The money goes into a fund used to promote beef as a valuable part of our diet. The most well known of the promotions are the "Beef. It's What's For Dinner" spots we see on television. The tagline on the commercials reads, "Funded by America's Beef Producers." That's what has some ranchers riled up enough to make a federal case out of it. Wyoming rancher Skip Waters says the program forces ranchers to pay while meat packers and retailers get most o...
Critics of checkoff programs say they're being forced by the feds to pay for ad...
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