A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20. 2001
WASHINGTON DC The A copy of the draft PwC
U.S. Department of Agricul- report will be available later
ture’s Agricultural Marketing today on the AMS Web site at:
Service announced Wednesday http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/
that not enough valid petitions mpb/rp-beef.htm. Because the
were received to require a refer
endum on the beef checkoff.
“Pricewaterhouse Coopers
(PwC), the nationally respected
accounting firm, has carefully
reviewed the petitions and
determined that the number of
valid petitions submitted to
USD A is insufficient to trigger a
referendum,” said AMS Admin
istrator Kathleen A. Merrigan.
The Beef Promotion and Re
search Act provides for a refer
endum if requested by 10
percent of all cattle producers in
the United States.
USDA determined this
number to be 107,883 producers.
PwC conducted a 100 percent
hand-count of the actual peti
tions and determined that the
Livestock Marketing Associa
tion submitted 127,927 petitions
to USDA. PwC estimates that
no more than 83,464 petitions
were valid (65.2 percent, 2.7 per
cent). This is significantly less
than the 107,883 petitions (84.3
percent) necessary to call for a
referendum
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