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R-CALF USA Billings, Mont. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently completed its reapportionment of the National Beef Checkoff Program to determine how many cattle are controlled by each of the states, which then determines the number of directors each state has on the Beef Checkoff Program’s Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB). It also determines the number of live cattle and cattle equivalents (i.e., beef volume converted to cattle numbers) that importers control. The USDA counts live cattle imports and then adds another head for each 592 pounds of imported beef to calculate the...

Share this article Share this article DENVER, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- With the ongoing pandemic, mothers across the country continue to balance the daily demands of their families, homes, careers, and communities – all the while current events continue to shift the dynamics of their worlds. Thank the moms in your life this Mother's Day with special recipes from the Checkoff funded, Beef. It's What's For Dinner. brand, managed by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The Beef Parmesan recipe can be found at beefitswhatsfordinner.com "Mother's Day means a lot to me because it give...

for Tri-State Livestock News and The Fence Post In mid-February of 2020, Ryan Brokaw of Forbes, N.D., sold three pot loads of calves. In less than a month due to the cattle market crash, a similar group of calves brought $50,000 less. “How the heck do you make up that kind of money?” Brokaw said. “I’m 42 and I have never been able to vote on the checkoff. It is supposed to help us but instead is crushing our industry.” Brokaw feels that beef producers should be given the opportunity to vote on the beef check-off and that the current system is broken and needs to be fixed. He has bee...

Billings, Mont. – Leaders of the National Beef Checkoff Petition Committee sent a letter last week to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board (Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB)) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeking their assistance in offering more U.S. cattle producers the opportunity to sign the petition for a referendum of the beef checkoff program. There has not been a referendum of the mandatory National Beef Checkoff Program in 35 years. Addressed to CBB chair Hugh Sanburg, and the USDA official that oversees the government-controlled national beef checkoff p...

Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews May 4, 2021 | 1:23 PM Leaders of the National Beef Checkoff Petition Committee sent a letter last week to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board and the US Department of Agriculture seeking their assistance in offering more US cattle producers the opportunity to sign the petition for a referendum of the beef checkoff program. There has not been a referendum of the mandatory National Beef Checkoff Program in 35 years. Addressed to CBB chair Hugh Sanburg, and the USDA official that oversees the government-controlled national beef checkoff program, Kahl Ses...