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Idaho Bean Commission asks panel to print RS31817 to raise checkoff assessment

2255286 · February 4, 2025
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Summary

The Idaho Bean Commission asked the Senate Agriculture Committee to print RS31817 to raise the commodity checkoff from 12¢ to 16¢ per hundredweight (with an option to increase to 24¢ later) to fund research and market development.

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted to print RS31817 after hearing testimony from Andy Wolf Wybie, executive director of the Idaho Bean Commission, who asked the committee to authorize an increase in the commission’s producer assessment.

"We as the Idaho Bean Commission have not requested an assessment increase since 1992," Andy Wolf Wybie said. She told the committee inflation and…

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