You guys have forgotten that a few years ago it was "what has the checkoff ever done for me?" the law does include informing producers, so the shift was made to spend more on informing producers where their money is going. You need to be involved in the time and effort spent in getting a grant to get checkoff dollars and the rewards that it has brought forth. LMA, or should I say PAT GOGGINS, started this whole thing, if it goes down in flames, the smaller producers, which is us, are going down and he will be buying you at half the market value of the land and he will keep on getting bigger. I have said this before on this site, if you do not think that PETA, The Nature Conservancy, and the rest of them are not laughing at our infighting you are wrong. They are watching us self destruct and it does not cost them a dime. If anyone of you can show me that Pat Goggins is not the support of R-Calf bring it on. He was president of LMA at the time, THE AUCTION MARKET IS THE ONLY WAY TO FIND TRUE VALUE, let's go back to the 60's. I find that true value is found on the grid where I get paid more than average for good cattle, that yield very well, grade above average, and have meat. They want a piece of the checkoff dollars because the NCBA and the NMA are promoting to us producers to use the tools we have to make more money, instead of them.

Have you ever heard of cutting the middle man out? That is what I am doing, and in the last two years it has netted on the average a $125 increase per head instead of paying them $30 per head to "market them for me". I have 12 years of carcass data that markets may cattle.