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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 777"><p>What does that mean: "getting our money's worth"? Do you really think you could have put that $1 or $300 you paid to the checkoff last year to better use than to increase the demand for your product? Demand for beef at least leveled out last year and, hopefully, we'll see demand start going up in the next few years as the convenience products hit the market. Some of those convenience products were partially financed with checkoff dollars. Research into the merits of beef in the diet is starting to show up, too. And much of that research was funded by the beef checkoff. I don't know about "everyone", but, yes, I think we're getting pretty good value for our money.<br>The packers have spent thousands of dollars on "food safety" issues in the last few years. That didn't come out of the beef checkoff funds, but if the consumer doesn't think our product is safe to eat, we're all in trouble!<br></p><p><br></p><p><br><hr size=7 width=75%><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:frankie@agdomain.com">frankie@agdomain.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 777"] What does that mean: "getting our money's worth"? Do you really think you could have put that $1 or $300 you paid to the checkoff last year to better use than to increase the demand for your product? Demand for beef at least leveled out last year and, hopefully, we'll see demand start going up in the next few years as the convenience products hit the market. Some of those convenience products were partially financed with checkoff dollars. Research into the merits of beef in the diet is starting to show up, too. And much of that research was funded by the beef checkoff. I don't know about "everyone", but, yes, I think we're getting pretty good value for our money.<br>The packers have spent thousands of dollars on "food safety" issues in the last few years. That didn't come out of the beef checkoff funds, but if the consumer doesn't think our product is safe to eat, we're all in trouble!<br> <br> <br><hr size=7 width=75%><p> [email=frankie@agdomain.com]frankie@agdomain.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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