David Hyde: 'Just to be clear, it’s not about the $1 tax, it’s about transparency and accountability of a program that has repeatedly refused, blocked, and even gone to court to prevent the release of information pertaining to the checkoff.'
, “We are concerned that unwarranted embarrassment could result for USDA” and “that checkoff funds are ‘vulnerable to misuse.’” Then they released 12,200 redacted pages of the checkoff audit and program.
Testimony on Capitol Hill had another contractor of the beef checkoff explain, “The Beef Checkoff, for example, was established by statute in 1985 and ratified by 79% of cattle producers in a national referendum three years later. The Beef Checkoff collects $1 per head from the receipts of cattle sold and uses these pooled resources to conduct research and market U.S. beef to both domestic consumers and foreign importers.
I worked 35 years as a union electrician before retiring and have paid thousands of dollars in mandatory dues to the union, but I received tangible and significant benefits as did other members that paid into this working tax.have the cumulative amount paid into the beef checkoff since 1985 at $1 billion dollars, and the proudest moment has been the development of the Flat Iron steak.
The time has come to turn this program over to the real independent professional marketing experts, with periodic audits and performance reviews. The contractors with cowboy hats have tried but failed the American cattle producers for way too long.
Dave Hyde, serves as Region VIII Director of R-CALF USA, writes in a guest commentary for The Salt Lake Tribune that “the contractors with cowboy hats have tried but failed the American cattle producers for way too long.”serves as Region VIII Director of R-CALF USA, the nation’s largest nonprofit trade association exclusively representing cattle producers.
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