Soybean Request for Referendum to
Begin May 2024
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[May 18, 2024]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will
conduct the Soybean Request for Referendum May 6 through May 31,
2024, in county Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices.
The Soybean Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act
requires USDA to conduct a Request for Referendum every five years
to determine if producers want to vote on continuation of the
Soybean Checkoff Program. The last Request for Referendum was
conducted in 2019.
Individual producers and other producer entities may request a
referendum at the county FSA office where their administrative farm
records are maintained. Producers who do not participate in FSA
programs may request a referendum through the county FSA office
where they own or rent land.
To be eligible to participate, producers must certify and provide
documentation that they produced soybeans and paid an assessment(s)
on their soybeans during the period of January 1, 2022, through
December 31, 2023. Producers may obtain Form LP–51–1, Soybean
Promotion and Research Order Request for Referendum, by postal mail,
fax or in person from their FSA county office. The form will be
available on the United Soybean Board page of the AMS website, from
May 6, 2024, to May 31, 2024.
Completed forms and supporting documentation must be returned to the
appropriate county FSA office by fax or in person no later than
close of business May 31, 2024. Mailed forms must be postmarked by
midnight May 31, 2024, and received in the county FSA office by
close of business, June 7, 2024.
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USDA will conduct a referendum if at least 10 percent of the
nation’s 413,358 soybean producers support a referendum. Not
more than one-fifth of the producers who support having a
referendum can be from any one state. Notice of the opportunity
to request a referendum was published in the Federal Register
February 2, 2024.
The
soybean checkoff program is administered by a 77-member producer
board and is designed to expand uses of soybeans and soybean
products in domestic and foreign markets. The national program is
financed by a mandatory assessment of one-half of 1 percent of the
net market price of soybeans. More information about the board is
available on the United Soybean Board page and on the board’s
website, unitedsoybean.org. You may
also contact Agricultural Marketing Specialist Jason Julian at (202)
731-2149 or Jason.Julian@usda.gov;
or Jeana Harbison at (202) 527-3398 or
Jeana.M.Harbison@usda.gov
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