A North Dakota district judge has removed language from the law governing the nominating process for the North Dakota Beef Commission. Six of the nine members of the beef checkoff board are nominated by the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, North Dakota Stockmen’s Association Feeder Council, Milk Producers Association of North Dakota and the North Dakota Livestock Marketing Association. For future appointments, the governor can take nominations from any group or individual. Judge Jackson Lofgren also ruled commission members cannot have received a state beef checkoff refund in the previous three years.
