After losing in court, the USDA quickly took steps to assume more direct oversight of beef checkoff expenditures. It entered into contracts with each state beef council and required them to obtain ...

My husband Pat and I own and operate a cow-calf operation and produce diversified row crops near LaMonte, Missouri. However, as much as I enjoy farming, my true passion is education. I was a teacher ...

A South Dakota cattle producer explains how checkoff funds are being used to reach consumers who eat less beef, have ...

After a decade of litigation, a federal judge has refused to compel the USDA to release additional records about its audit of the Beef Checkoff program. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in ...

I’m a third-generation cattle producer in southern Wisconsin, and I’m also a representative of a national livestock video auction company. As a member of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, I’m in a unique ...

U.S. cattle producers do a great job of consistently producing high quality beef. To ensure consumers continue to demand our product and recognize the great attributes of beef, we need the marketing, ...

The Beef Checkoff Program has announced the 2012 National Foodservice Beef Backer Award winners. Each year, the Beef Checkoff Program salutes three foodservice operators for their efforts in serving ...

OLYMPIA — Legislation to double Washington’s beef checkoff died March 29 in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Senate Bill 5150 would have raised the per-head fee that cattle ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.–Missouri’s Director of Agriculture thinks timing played a role in the failure of a proposed state beef check-off, last month. Beef producers voted against a state $1-per-head ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota beef industry is divided on how the state's beef checkoff board should be filled, and a pair of bills under consideration in the Legislature aim to give beef ...