That's a very good question. In the cattle industry we do collect a check-off. It's the national check-off of $1 for every head marketed, every time it's sold. On average, in an animal's lifetime, an animal will relate to $2.70 approximately in terms of total check-off collected. Of that $2.70, the majority goes to our national and international market development programming, but a portion of it goes to our beef cattle research. Approximately, at this point, 15% is going to the Beef Cattle Research Council. The council is made up of a combination of producers, researchers, and experts who establish research priorities and then work through the science cluster approach at ensuring that research is done. And as Andrea has noted, it is also now really working on the attempt to have a meaningful tech transfer.
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