Frequently Asked Questions

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The Texas Beef Checkoff program is split up from the National Beef Checkoff; all the same, they operate in tandem with one some other to conduct promotion, marketing, research and education programs for beef and beefiness products. Although they are both mandatory assessments, the Texas Beefiness Checkoff portion is refundable.

Past law, all producers selling cattle or calves, for whatsoever reason and regardless of historic period or sex, are required to pay a combined $2 per head state and national Checkoff to support beef promotion, research and didactics. Each collection point is responsible for collecting and remitting the assessment. A collection point is any entity, including an individual, which makes payment to a producer for cattle purchased or facilitates transfer of ownership. The assessment volition be remitted to the Texas Beef Council, a contractor of the Beef Promotion and Research Council of Texas, using the state/national Checkoff remittance grade.

Additionally, the Checkoff is collected at the same rate on every live beefiness beast imported and at the equivalent charge per unit of $2 per head state and national Checkoff on all beef products that are imported.

Payment for both the state and national Checkoff programs can be made with one check, which is due by the 15th of the month following the month in which the assessment is collected. A two percent tardily fee is assessed if postmarked after the 15th.

Yes, producers are required to pay both checkoff programs; notwithstanding, the Texas Beef Checkoff is refundable.

A producer who has paid an assessment to the Texas Beef Checkoff may obtain a refund of the amount paid past filing an application for refund with the Beef Promotion and Enquiry Quango of Texas (BPRCT) within 60 days after the date of payment. The application must be in writing, on a course prescribed by BPRCT for that purpose and accompanied by proof of payment of the assessment. The National Beefiness Checkoff is not refundable.

Yes. All cattle sold in Texas, including out-of-country cattle sold in Texas, are subject to the National and Texas Beef Checkoff programs.

If an private qualifies for a non-producer exemption under the national program in accord with the National Beef Promotion and Enquiry Act, that private would qualify for a non-producer exemption in the state plan, nether the following conditions:

  • The individual's share in the proceeds of a sale of cattle or beef solely consists of a sales committee, handling fee or other service fee
  • The individual caused ownership of cattle to facilitate the transfer of buying of such cattle from the seller to a third party
  • The individual resold such cattle no later than 10 days from the appointment on which the individual acquired buying
  • The individual certified, as required by procedures prescribed by the Council, that the requirements of this provision accept been satisfied
  • The private must meet the USDA certification requirements under the National Organic Program and have a electric current USDA certificate

Remember, a dollar or a document. All selling/purchase transactions must be reported. In each case, either $2 per head or a non-producer status form document must exist collected by the buyer, from the seller, to show the dollar has been collected and paid inside the past ten days.

No other producer is exempt from the Beef Checkoff. Buyers who resell cattle no more than 10 days from the date of purchase may file a non-producer status form and avoid paying an additional dollar. They are, however, responsible for remitting nerveless funds and reporting whatever transactions to the Texas Beef Quango.

Private Treaty Sales involve i producer selling cattle to another producer where at that place is no designated collecting person involved in the transaction.

Yes. The Beef Promotion and Research Order and the Texas Beef Checkoff police nether which the checkoff programs operate require that the $2 be remitted on ALL sales of cattle regardless of age, sex activity, brood or purpose.

Yes. If you market place cattle in the form of beef or beefiness products to consumers either directly, through retail or wholesale outlets or for export purposes, you lot are required to remit an assessment of $2 per head of cattle. Cattle and calves slaughtered for personal consumption by the producer and his or her family are not assessed.

While the dairy industry's master business is producing milk, dairy farmers as well sell calves and produce beef from the cows sent to market. In fact, over xx% of the beef produced in the U.S. comes from dairy stock.

When the Checkoff was first established in the Beef Promotion and Research Act as office of the 1985 Subcontract Bill, producers wanted to ensure that all those who would benefit from the increased demand as a effect of the Beefiness Checkoff would share in the cost of funding the program. Therefore, with the dairy industry providing a good portion of the beef produced in the U.S., these producers are also a part of the Beef Checkoff program.

Where tin I go more than information about the Texas Beefiness Checkoff?

For more than information about the Beef Checkoff, please phone call 1-800-846-4113 or e-mail the states.

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