IARN — 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.
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