USDA drafting a new beef checkoff amid industry disarray

The Agriculture Department is drafting a $1 a head beef checkoff program of its own that would run alongside the current $1 checkoff that is a lightning rod for complaints of favoritism. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told an informal cattle committee last week that USDA was acting under authority of a 1996 law because because… » Read More

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