growers and feeders across the Nation, have provided the funds for the board's program. All funds accepted by the board are for its overall program. In recent years, these funds contributed in the amounts of 1 cent per head on cattle, one-third cent per head on hogs and calves and one-fifth cent per head on sheep and lambs, depending on livestock numbers from year to year provided a sum of $380,000 upward to approximately $425,000 annually for the board's program. However, in 1953 at the request of the various segments of the industry the board asked the industry to double these contributions on a per-head basis. This challenge was readily and immediately accepted by the industry and by the early summer of 1954 the job of doubling the per-head collections was virtually complete, and currently not only because of doubling the collections, but also because of substantial increases in livestock numbers and a broadening of the basis of collections (more market points and more packers), the funds at the board's disposal are running at the rate of $1,100,000 to $1,200,000 annually. In other words, the industry has responded not with doubling the funds, but actually tripling the funds available for the board's work, showing most effectively how the industry feels about this effort. This map shows you a distribution of the sources of revenue from livestock markets in the Nation's major livestock-producing areas, the large dots representing the Nation's terminal markets, the medium-sized dots the auction markets, and the smaller dots the order buyers and buying stations, not only of the packers but also individual order buyers and producer-owned marketing points in other areas. May I remind the committee again that the material being left with you does contain this statement as presented to you verbally, insofar as I have been able to do and at the same time follow this set of charts, it being our feeling that the use of these visual aids would help to clarify the picture of this constantly expanding nationwide program of meat research, education, information, and promotion carried on by all segments of this industry through the National Livestock and Meat Board. (The charts referred to are as follows :) NATIONAL LIVE STOCK AND MEAT BOARD (Representing livestock growers and feeders, livestock marketing agencies, meat packers, meat retailers and restaurateurs) ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED BY THE BOARD Livestock growers and feeders (16) American Farm Bureau Federation. American National Cattlemen's Association. Kansas Livestock Association. Lamb feeders associations. National Society of Live Stock Record Associations. National Wool Growers Association. Swine growers associations. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Marketing agencies (5) Farmers Union. National Livestock Auction Association. National Livestock Exchange. National Live Stock Producers Association. Meat packers (4) American Meat Institute. Retailers and restaurateurs (5) National Association of Food Chains. National Association of Retail Grocers. National Association of Retail Meat and Food Dealers. National Restaurant Association. Super Market Institute. MEAT RESEARCH 1924-56 One hundred and eight research projects on protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, reproduction, lactation, longevity, blood regeneration, dental caries, human nutrition, meat cookery, special meat studies Cardio-vascular disease CURRENT STUDIES Dr. W. D. Salmon, Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Dr. F. J. Stare, Harvard University. Dr. F. A. Kummerow, University of Illinois. Dr. R. T. Holman, University of Minnesota. Fat metabolism Dr. N. S. Scrimshaw, Pan-American Nutrition Institute, Guatemala. Meat digestibility Dr. A. H. Smith, Dr. Aline U. Orten, Wayne University. Human nutrition studies Dr. F. R. Steggerda, University of Illinois. Dr. A. H. Washburn, University of Colorado. Dr. P. Swanson, Iowa State College. Dr. C. Young, Cornell University. Meat studies Dr. R. Leverton, Oklahoma A. and M. College. Dr. B. S. Schweigert, American Meat Institute Foundation. Drs. Brady and Turner, University of Missouri. Dr. C. A. Elvehjem, University of Wisconsin. |