JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the Missouri Department of Agriculture from proceeding with the current referendum process to impose a $1 per head state beef checkoff tax has been filed in Cole County Circuit Court by the Missouri Rural Crisis Center.
The court, which recently denied a request for a temporary restraining order, scheduled a hearing on the injunction for March 21.
“The Missouri Department of Ag (MDA) is trying to shove through a bogus election to impose a 100 percent increase in beef checkoff taxes on all of Missouri’s 50,000 cattle producers,” said Rhonda Perry, a cattle producer from Armstrong, Missouri, and program director of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
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