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How many here would want to vote on keeping the checkoff or do away with it?

News Conference What: R-CALF USA news conference to address the EPA’s enforcement action to pressure small- and mid-sized cattle feeders out of business by declaring hay a pollutant The news conference will highlight ongoing efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Roles & Responsibilities Policy Changes Adopted by CBB This Week beefcheckoff | August 4, 2011 at 10:46 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1BxtA-36 CBB members approved the Roles & Responsibilities document this week during the CBB update session in Florida. The five...

Update on NCBA's $2 Million Checkoff Cash Advance... beefcheckoff | July 28, 2011 at 7:50 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1BxtA-31 On August 28, 2009 the Cattlemen's Beef Board agreed to advance its primary contractor $2 million in checkoff funds (available in the CBB...

.Bombshell!! NCBA’s Checkoff Billing Errors Now Total $305,000 11 Jun The ongoing financial review following-up on the Clifton-Gunderson firm’s financial review of NCBA has, as of June 1, turned up another $88,421 in beef checkoff billing errors bringing the current total of billing errors to...

A CBB Member Weighs In With His Perspective…70.9% of NCBA’s Total Overhead Paid by Checkoff 13 Jun CBB… Solid as ever by Chuck Kiker Member, Cattlemen’s Beef Board (Published in the Western Ag Reporter week of June 6, 2011 and in the latest edition of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association...

Kansas Beef Council seated 8 people on the Federation Board of Directors from 2007 to 2010 and sent $2,599,565 in 07, $2,398,928 in 08 and $2,456,619 in 2010. Since they give more than $1 million they also get a seat on the Executive Committee at NCBA but I don't know who that is. Kansas share...

Another ‘study' from meatpacker puppets A column by Alan Guebert If you only quote the Amen Corner, the only reply you'll ever hear is “Hallelujah!” And so it was in late October when yet another hired preacher of the Meatpacker Gang, a Brooklyn outfit named John Dunham &...

If this has already been posted, I appologise. Grounds For Divorce By Lee Pitts Reprinted from the January 15, 2010, edition of Livestock Market Digest As with most marriages, the one between the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the NCBA seems to be going through some tough times...

I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and Sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. ‘I’m Glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,’ I Thought. Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came Down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats...

A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check. He marched straight up to the counter and said, "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job." The social worker behind the counter said, "Your timing is excellent! We just got a job opening from a...

R-CALF USA applauds the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), whose registered voting delegates on Tuesday – by an electronic vote during AFBF’s 89th annual meeting held in New Orleans – voted 62 percent to 38 percent, or 212-132, to support mandatory country-of-origin labeling. R-CALF USA...

Cattlemen Seek Checkoff Changes By NATE JENKINS – 12/24/2007 LINCOLN , Neb. (AP) — Cattle producers in Nebraska and other states are pushing for the first significant change to the national beef checkoff program since it started more than 20 years ago. The beef checkoff program is behind the...

A Blonde's Year in Review January Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight. February Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels..... Helllloooo!!!.......bottles won't fit in printer !!! March Got really excited.....finished...

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If Bush resigned today, this is what his speech would be..... Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and...

AgriTalk Poll Should meat packers be banned from owning livestock? Yes 87.5% No 9.2% Not sure 3.3%

Who does NCBA represent? To the editor: What should an independent cattle producer believe about the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA)? I recently received a letter from the NCBA requesting my membership in the organization. In this letter, the NCBA claims to be lobbying in...

"I'm Tired" BY: Joe Repya, Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army 101st Airborne Division Two weeks ago, as I was starting my sixth month of duty in Iraq, I was forced to return to the USA for surgery for an injury I sustained prior to my deployment. With luck, I'll return to Iraq to finish my...

Support U.S. beef: A&W -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES: A&W Restaurants calls for Americans to take a stand and support 100-percent U.S. beef...