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The Livestock Marketing Association and other plaintiffs
have agreed to drop all claims in their legal actions against
the USDA and the Cattlemen's Beef Board in return for an
agreement by CBB that it will use checkoff funds to conduct
an extensive survey of cattle producers to determine how
they want checkoff money spent.
Producers pay $1 per head of cattle sold under the program,
part of the 1985 Farm Bill. That money is used to increase
demand for beef at the state level and at the national level
through CBB. LMA and other producer groups contended that
the program was not responsive to many producers' concerns,
and sued CBB and USDA, which oversees the program.
Under terms of the agreement, CBB will survey at least 8,000
cattle producers.
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