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Alberta Reaches Compromise On Checkoff War

By Ron Friesen October 14, 2010

Acompromise on the controversial elimination of a mandatory Alberta cattle checkoff will help restore lost funding for Canada’s financially squeezed beef agencies. Alberta’s two biggest cattle associations have negotiated a three-year agreement to bring back a national checkoff on live cattle sales in the province. The deal will restore $1 of the previously mandatory $3-a-head

Beef cattle, News

BIC To Merge With Cbef – for Aug. 26, 2010

By Daniel Winters August 26, 2010

Faced with declining checkoff dollars, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is looking to merge two of its marketing arms together. The roles of the Canadian Beef Export Federation (CBEF) and the Beef Information Council (BIC) are currently under review with an eye on cutting costs, according to Brad Wildeman, former head of the CCA who is

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Beef Checkoff To NCBA: Drop Dead

By Alan Guebert July 1, 2010

“NCBA just doesn’t get it.” In a toughly worded statement June 22, the executive committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the group created by Congress to collect and oversee the $1-per-head beef checkoff, served notice that it strongly backed the independence of the Federation of State Beef Councils in the ongoing debate over the checkoff’s

Beef cattle, News

Alberta Checkoff Change Hurts National Beef Program Funding

By Ron Friesen April 22, 2010

The elimination of a nonrefundable cattle checkoff in Alberta could cost Canada’s beef industry over $20 million a year in lost economic benefits, according to figures in a new study. A national agency which directs checkoff money toward beef research, promotion and market development has slashed its annual budget, mainly because the Alberta checkoff, once

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

U. S. Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

By Alan Guebert April 1, 2010

“There’s a real sense that the proposed NCBA changes leave no strong role for state beef councils and non-NCBA members. Who speaks for them if these changes are adopted?” – NANCY ROBINSON Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D. C. – cap and trade, cuts in crop insurance,

Cereals, News

Supporting Research Lowers Your Taxes

By Western Grains Research Foundation March 11, 2010

The federal government annually provides a Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit to producers offering them money back on their checkoff investments. The tax credit percentage for producers who contributed to the Wheat and Barley Checkoff (administered by the Western Grains Research Foundation) in 2009 are 83 per cent for wheat and 76

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KaP’s Member List Shrinking

By Ron Friesen February 4, 2010

Aperennial problem with a compulsory membership checkoff caused Keystone Agricultural Producers to finish 2009 with its fewest members in years. Financial statements released at KAP’s annual meeting in Winnipeg last week show the organization ended last year with 4,402 paid members, down from 4,824 in 2008. It’s not the lowest figure in KAP’s 26-year history

Beef cattle, Livestock

TV Ads Too Expensive In Hard Times

By Bob Burgdorfer February 4, 2010

The high cost of advertising and a struggling U. S. beef industry have forced the popular “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner” ads off television and it does not appear they will be returning any time soon, an industry official said Jan. 27. Voiced over the years by actors Robert Mitchum, James Garner and Sam Elliott,

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Alberta Checkoff Change Could Affect CCA’s Finances

By Ron Friesen August 13, 2009

Canada’s national beef lobby group could experience a major financial setback following Alberta’s elimination of a non-refundable provincial checkoff on cattle sales. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is asking its provincial members for possible ideas on reducing programs because of a potential revenue shortfall stemming from the Alberta checkoff change. The Alberta government earlier this year

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Alberta Decision Has National Repercussions

By Will Verboven May 7, 2009

It would seem that the Minister in his quest to rein in the ABP may have opened a whole new can of problems. Arecent decision by Alberta Minister of Agriculture George Groeneveld to introduce a refundable cattle checkoff is going to affect the cattle and beef industry both nationally and even internationally. The decision, which

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Alberta Reaches Compromise On Checkoff War

BIC To Merge With Cbef – for Aug. 26, 2010

Beef Checkoff To NCBA: Drop Dead

Alberta Checkoff Change Hurts National Beef Program Funding

U. S. Cowboy Checkoff Fight Grows

Supporting Research Lowers Your Taxes

KaP’s Member List Shrinking

TV Ads Too Expensive In Hard Times

Alberta Checkoff Change Could Affect CCA’s Finances

Alberta Decision Has National Repercussions

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