Georgia Department of Agriculture

Georgia Beef Producers Approve the Continuation of Georgia’s Beef Commission Assessment

Dan Agri-Business, Beef, Cattle, Georgia

(GDA/Atlanta, GA/August 8, 2023) — Today, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper announced that Georgia’s beef producers approved a continuation of a one-dollar market order assessment, which helps support the Georgia Beef Commission. Voting on the assessment continuation occurred in June of 2023 and passed with eighty-two percent support of beef producers. The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) administers the fourteen farmer-funded …

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Georgia Producers Continue to Support State Beef Checkoff

Dan Beef, Cattle, Georgia

For the past few years, Georgia beef producers have continued to support the $1 per head assessment for beef cattle by renewing the Beef Commission Marketing Order. The Georgia Agriculture Commodity Commission for Beef was established by the Georgia legislature in 2013 and a commission marketing order was created the year following. The order requires an assessment to be collected on all …