Pork Producers May Have Vote on Marketing Fee.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 2, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Feb. 29--LINCOLN, Neb.--Yielding to pressure from many of the nation's small pork producers, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman called Monday for a national vote on whether to continue a 12-year program that taxes farmers to fund marketing efforts.

Glickman said pork producers deserve a chance to vote on the mandatory checkoff -- a 45-cent fee for every $100 worth of pork that producers sell -- even if he couldn't be certain that a petition campaign had enough valid signatures to force a vote.

"I believe that equity strongly favors giving producers the opportunity to ...

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