TY - EJOUR AB - Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the mandatory fees imposed by the beef checkoff violates the First Amendment. As a precaution, many states began forming voluntary beef checkoffs, where funds would be raised through voluntary contributions. This study conducted a survey of Oklahoma cattle producers to determine what type ofvoluntary checkoff design would receive the greatest support. The most popular checkoff placed a large emphasis on advertising and a slightly lower checkoff fee. The survey also tested the ability of a provision point mechanism to limit free-riding. The mechanism was not as effective as in other studies which used laboratory experiments. AU - Norwood, F. Bailey AU - Winn, Chris AU - Chung, Chanjin AU - Ward, Clement E. DA - 2006-04 DA - 2006-04 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.10149 DO - doi EP - 92 EP - 74 ID - 10149 IS - 01 JF - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics KW - Agricultural and Food Policy KW - Livestock Production/Industries KW - beef marketing KW - checkoff KW - free-rider KW - provision point mechanism KW - public good L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10149/files/31010074.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10149/files/31010074.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10149/files/31010074.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10149/files/31010074.pdf N2 - Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the mandatory fees imposed by the beef checkoff violates the First Amendment. As a precaution, many states began forming voluntary beef checkoffs, where funds would be raised through voluntary contributions. This study conducted a survey of Oklahoma cattle producers to determine what type ofvoluntary checkoff design would receive the greatest support. The most popular checkoff placed a large emphasis on advertising and a slightly lower checkoff fee. The survey also tested the ability of a provision point mechanism to limit free-riding. The mechanism was not as effective as in other studies which used laboratory experiments. PY - 2006-04 PY - 2006-04 SP - 74 T1 - Designing a Voluntary Beef Checkoff TI - Designing a Voluntary Beef Checkoff UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10149/files/31010074.pdf VL - 31 Y1 - 2006-04 T2 - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics ER -