The Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act mandates the Pork Checkoff. It requires a promotion fee to be collected any time a hog is sold. The rate had been 40 cents per hundred dollars, but a vote earlier this year reduced that rate to 35 cents per hundred dollars.
National Pork Board Member Dale Stevermer talks about the process to get that changed.
The new rate goes into effect on January 1st, 2023. The reduction will change the revenue taken in by the Pork Board but won?t affect its mission.
Stevermer says that the NPB reacted swiftly to adjust their budgets for this coming year in response to the vote.
Learn more about the work done by your checkoff dollars at porkcheckoff.org
