Gift of Beef
Welcome to Open Range, I’m Susan Allen. Stay tuned because after the break I’ll check in with our field reporter, Greg Martin for the AgriBeef Minute.
I’m Greg Martin with the Open Range AgriBeef Minute. Do you have someone on your gift giving list that really is hard to get a gift for? I have a solution. Give the gift of beef. Peggy Biaggi with the Oregon Cattlewomen’s Association says they have been providing gift certificates for beef.
BIAGGI: We sell them. We don’t charge any extra and our main goal as Oregon Cattlewomen is to promote beef. They’ve been around for 20-30 years in Oregon. The Oregon Beef Council started it and they asked the Oregon Cattlewomen if they wanted to do it and we’ve been doing it for several years now.
Biaggi says the certificates are really just like a check and are legal tender in all 50 states.
BIAGGI: They’re distributed through Bank of Eastern Oregon and there are 4 Farm Credit offices that have them available for sale and of course anyone can contact me for them also.
Appropriate for anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas or other special holidays, it is redeemable at supermarkets, meat markets, and restaurants everywhere when used to purchase fresh, canned, frozen or cooked beef.
BIAGGI: We sell from 4 to 8 thousand dollars worth a year It’s pretty successful and it’s not that hard to monitor and take care of. Like I say our main object is to get people to eat more beef.
I’m Greg Martin and that’s today’s AgriBeef Minute.
Thanks Greg. Don’t forget Greg will be back each Wednesday with the AgriBeef Minute. Agri Beef Co - Real Families, Great People, Exceptional Beef. I’m Susan Allen.
