Beef Checkoff Effort Frayed

NFU Members Seek to Withdraw From Three-Year Industry Talks

Chris Clayton
By  Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
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With a declining cattle herd, beef checkoff supporters have pushed to increase the $1 per-head fee while other groups argue no increase should take place until the beef industry agrees to structural changes on how checkoff dollars are controlled, used and distributed. (Logo courtesy of the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board)
The beef industry working group has largely been a quiet affair. That was by design because groups didn't want to fight in the press. But leaders of the Ranchers-Cattlemen's Action Legal Fund complained about the process because the group has been excluded...

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