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US Beef Producers Stepping Up with Beef Checkoff Funds to Help Japanese Consumers
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 8:29:47 CDT
In a combined effort of the Cattlemen's Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils, the Beef Checkoff Program is investing a total of $200,000 to help feed consumers in Japan who were injured, misplaced and left homeless and hungry by the devastating earthquake and tsunamis there.
The Beef Promotion Operating Committee last week approved an amended 2011 foreign-marketing proposal or "Authorization Request" that added $100,000 from the Beef Board budget to help fund a Japan Relief Program established through the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), a contractor to the Beef Checkoff Program. Federation Chairman David Dick of Missouri said the Federation voted to send an additional $100,000 from its budget, for a combined checkoff investment of $200,000.
We have comments with Dan Dierschke, rancher from Austin, Texas, and member of the Beef Promotion Operating Committee about these contributions on today's beef Buzz.
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