The Cattlemen’s Beef Board has set it spending plan for Fiscal Year 2015. The Beef Promotion Operating Committee meeting in Denver this week allocated a total of $41.3 million from the checkoff with:
$27.8 million going to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
$7.7 million to the U.S. Meat Export Federation
$1.5 million to the Cattlemen’s Beef Board
$1.1 million to the North American Meat Association
$371,000 to the American National CattleWomen
$350,800 to the Meat Import Council of America
$222,500 to the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
$45,000 to the National Livestock Producers Association.
The budget calls for:
$10.4 million for consumer information programs
$9.7 million for research programs
$8 million for promotion programs
$7.7 million for foreign marketing and education
$1.7 million for industry information
$1.5 million for producer communications.
The recommendations will be reviewed by the full Beef Board and must be approved by USDA. FY 2015 starts October 1st.
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