The South Dakota Certified Beef Program, developed during the Rounds administration, is still on the books including its trademarks. That program was designed to label beef products as South Dakota, born, raised and harvested. South Dakota Stockgrowers Executive Director Silvia Christen says there was an attempt last week in the South Dakota legislature to get rid of the program.

However, she says Stockgrowers and other ag organizations were able to get Representative Dan Ahlers to hold off on the legislation for a year, so discussions could be held to determine if there’s a way to revive the program.

Christen says implementing the South Dakota Certified Beef Program could help the state’s cattle producers in both international and domestic markets.

Christen says the South Dakota Certified Beef Program never got implemented after the Northern Plain Beef Processors Plant in Aberdeen failed.