The MBIC collects the $1 beef checkoff here in Maine. MBIC uses these funds to promote beef products to consumers. This website is funded by the $1 beef checkoff.

Our focus has primarily targeted health professionals and schools, and we provide them with updated materials so beef will remain a solid part of healthy eating. We exhibit at health professional conferences and provide independent nutritionists, dieticians, and others with recipes, counseling guides, and link them to our national partners and web sites. 

Maine's cattle inventory as of January 1, 2008 was reported at 89,000 head, according to reports published by the New England Agricultural Statistical Service. Thus, annual collections in Maine on bovine sales keeps our available promotional dollars small relative to other larger western and midwestern states.

Also, we provide recipes to Maine beef producers who sell freezer trade to support them in making sure their customers come back for more beef each year.

We strive to achieve 100% compliance.  We try to reach producers and remind them to remit, so we can be found at most of the beef educational and marketing events in Maine, explaining producers and markets about the checkoff and when dollars must be remitted. Please contact us if you have questions about whether you owe. A 2% late fee on dollars not remitted on time is federally mandated. Dollars are due the 15th of the month following the sale of the bovine. All bovine apply: purebred and/or commercial dairy, beef, veal cattle and calves whether sold at auction or private treaty and/or freezer trade.

We hope you find our website helpful. Please contact Judy Powell if you have suggestions at mbic@midmaine.com.

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Thanks for visiting the MBIC. Remember, call if questions.




Maine beef and dairy producers along with industry representatives
are the wit and wisdom behind Maine's program.
Producers call attention to new convenience beef products when the Beefmobile visited the "Beef Tent" at Maine Farm Days. Left to right: Kevin Woltemath of Wolfe’s Neck Natural Meats at Pineland Farms;
Brenda Allen, Maine Beef Industry Council; Clint Giustra, RaeMarie Gordon, Beefmobile; Matt Randall, Maine Beef Producers Association, and Jeff Randall, Maine Beef Industry Council Vice Chairman. Several new convenience products were showcased. Judy Powell photo.