Cattle Industry Development Council

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A $3.00 per head Cattle Industry Development Council check-off paid by producers when cattle are sold or slaughtered in British Columbia is working for the beef cattle producer. Here is a brief look at how the check-off dollars are used to influence the marketplace for the cattle industry.

$10.00 per head levy is collected when producers sell horned cattle in British Columbia. The levy is to encourage the de-horning of cattle in order to reduce economic impacts of injuries caused by animals with horns. Originally the levy was set at $2 per head and remained that way for more than sixty years until votes by provincial cattle organizations recommended that the levy be increased and that it be a levy under the Farming and Fishing Industries Development Act administered by the Cattle Industry Development Council.

Cattle producers in British Columbia have supported the levy (check-off) on cattle for many years. $2 per head becomes the CIDC fund which is used to promote the cattle industry in BC and to support research or education programs. Triggering a match from the Beef Cattle Industry Development Trust earnings double these producer dollars. During the first 16 years of the Trust, over $10 million has been triggered from the Trust to contribute to projects with a total value of over $20 million.

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