REYNOLDSBURG – The Ohio Department of Agriculture certified the results on Monday of the Ohio Beef
Marketing Program Referendum. The referendum, seeking to increase the state checkoff on cattle from $1
to $2, received enough favorable votes to pass.
A total of 2,118 votes were certified; 1,527 votes, or 72 percent of the total, were cast in favor of the
referendum and 591 votes, about 28 percent, were opposed to the increase. Producers were able to vote by
absentee ballot, and also in person at the Ohio Department of Agriculture and at OSU Extension offices.

The provisions of the Ohio Beef Marketing Program are defined in section 924 of the Ohio Revised Code.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture has the authority through section 924 to oversee state commodity
checkoff programs, including administration of the referendum process, budgetary oversight, and
authority to assist in establishing new commodity programs.REYNOLDSBURG – The Ohio Department of
Agriculture certified the results on Monday of the Ohio Beef Marketing Program Referendum. The
referendum, seeking to increase the state checkoff on cattle from $1 to $2, received enough favorable
votes to pass.
A total of 2,118 votes were certified; 1,527 votes, or 72 percent of the total, were cast in favor of the
referendum and 591 votes, about 28 percent, were opposed to the increase. Producers were able to vote by
absentee ballot, and also in person at the Ohio Department of Agriculture and at OSU Extension offices.

The provisions of the Ohio Beef Marketing Program are defined in section 924 of the Ohio Revised Code.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture has the authority through section 924 to oversee state commodity
checkoff programs, including administration of the referendum process, budgetary oversight, and
authority to assist in establishing new commodity programs.