Operating Committee to Set 2009 Plan of Work

The planning cycle for the Beef Checkoff Program is year-round so with a fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the plan of work for Fiscal Year 2009 is in its final stages. During the 2008 Cattle Industry Summer Conference, representatives of beef industry organizations wishing to contract to manage checkoff programming in the coming year presented their proposals to joint checkoff committees made up of producers from the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils. Organizations that presented proposals or would subcontract on submitted proposals include the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, U.S. Meat Export Federation, Meat Importers Council of America, American National CattleWomen, and the American Veal Association.

After hearing those proposals during the summer meeting, each joint checkoff committee made recommedations for program work they believe should be funded with producers’ checkoff investments in Fiscal Year 2009. In September, those recommendations go to the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, which will spend two days hearing, debating and honing those recommendations to issue a 2009 Plan of Work.

The Operating Committee meeting is scheduled for Sept. 17-18 in Denver. The agenda is posted here: Operating Committee Agenda.