HCR6016

This concurrent resolution expresses South Dakota's support for reforming the federal beef checkoff program, which charges cattle sellers $1 per head to fund beef research and promotion. The resolution criticizes the mandatory checkoff system for lacking transparency, creating conflicts of interest with meatpacking companies, and failing to reverse decades of declining beef consumption and domestic cattle production. Rather than changing state law, this resolution is a statement calling on Congress and federal officials to overhaul how the beef checkoff operates.

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