Commodity Promotion Programs
Legislative Roots and Supreme Court Case Law
The Cattlemen’s Beef Research and Promotion Board was established in 1985 by the Federal Beef Promotion and Research Act. The Board, which has 108 members appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, was tasked with collecting a $1-per-head assessment on cattle sold or imported in the United States and using those funds to "strengthen the beef industry’s position in the marketplace and to maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets and uses for beef and beef products" through research and marketing. The Beef Board was one of a number of commodity interest groups established by Federal law in the 1980s and…
