The Nebraska Beef Board recently established the next fiscal year budget, as well as determine the projects to be funded.  The Nebraska Beef Board oversees the one dollar checkoff when cattle producers sell their cattle.  Half of the collected beef checkoff money stays in the Cornhusker State to fund research, education, market development and promotion projects.  The other half of the money is directed to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Board for checkoff related programs.  Ann Marie Bosshamer serves as the executive director for the Nebraska Beef Board and explains the agreed upon budget.  Bosshamer says since Nebraska has several meat packing facilities, some of the collected money will go back to the state where the cattle were fed and finished.  Bosshamer says the amount of funds that are returned to other states amounts to nearly a third of the total collected checkoff money.  The beef checkoff money to be utilized by the Nebraska Beef Board is around $3.4 million dollars.  The Nebraska Beef Board executive talks about some of the educational and promotional projects that have been approved.  Bosshamer says the goal behind the beef checkoff is to increase beef consumption.