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Idaho Bean Commission seeks to increase commodity assessment; committee votes to print RS31817
Summary
The Idaho Bean Commission asked the Senate Agriculture Committee to print RS31817, a request to raise the commission's check‑off assessment from 12¢ per hundredweight toward 16¢ (with possible future authorization to 24¢). The committee voted to print the request.
The Idaho Bean Commission’s executive director told the Senate Agriculture Committee the commission seeks statutory authority to increase its check‑off assessment to fund research, trade promotion and disease and insect work.
Andy Wolf Wybie, executive director of the Idaho Bean Commission, said the commission has not requested an assessment increase since 1992 and that inflation and recent needs (including…
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