Egg Marketing Order
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UEP hoped would convince
Americans to eat more eggs. OF
the 1,106 producers who voted
nationwide, 57 percent opposed
the marketing order, with 43 per
cent voting yes. From a
standpoint, however, owners rep
resenting 20 million cases of eggs
produced annually favored the
marketing order, while producers,
of 17.6 million cases opposed it
One egg industry representative
pointed out that the larger produc
ers apparently favored the order
while the smaller ones were
opposed.
Voting in Pennsylvania para
lleled the national trend. Of the
114 voting producers, 42 percent
favored the order, while 58 percent
opposed it. Producers of more than
1.2 million cases, or 59 percent of
the state’s production, said they
favored the marketing order. To be
enacted, though, the checkoff had
to receive approval from either
two-thirds of the voters or two
thirds of the production
represented.
Only three states-Nevada, New
Mexico and Wyoming-failed to
submit any votes.
At present, producers are
required to check off S cents per
case, but the program is voluntary
in that a refund may be requested.
According to Bushway, the 5-cent
checkoff yields only about $6 mil
lion a year.
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Bushway said that, at a board
meeting earlier this week, the
American Egg Board’s executive
committee recommended the
5-cent assessment be dropped to
2.5 cents in an effort to increase
compliance. The Northeast UEP
head expects the proposal to be
accepted when it is presented to the
AEB next week.
Checkoff funds-whether the
assessment is 5 cents or 2.5 cents
will be channeled to three areas.
Money will continue to be allo
cated to the UEP-AEB Egg Nutri
tion Center in Washington. The
center serves a public education
function, provides cholesterol
screening and is currently pushing
for nutritional labeling on food
products, said Bushway. The other
two areas to be funded include
consumer education through the
media and educational programs
for food service institutions.
Bushway said the future of these
programs, as well as the future of
AEB itself, was uncertain in light
of the referendum vote. UEP had
campaigned aggressively for the
marketing order in an effort to halt
a gradual decrease in egg con
sumption that began 40 years ago.
According to UEP statistics, 74
percent of the nation’s egg produc
ers have gone out of business in the
past seven years.
But the United Egg Producers is
interpreting the referendum as a
clear sign that producers aren’t
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convinced that promotion is the
answer to the problem. “As far as
the marketing order is concerned,
we have no plans to do anything
more at this point,” Bushway
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issues.”
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