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Manitoba Beef Producers' Member Priorities and Needs Survey

1.What is your district # or your municipality's name if unsure of district #
2.What is your gender?
3.What is your age?
4.What is your type of operation?
Priority matters on which you would like MBP to work
5.What is important to you as a focus for MBP's activities?
6.Thinking about your choices in question 5, please list up to four priorities for MBP.
7.Are there other matters you'd like MBP to be working on, or services to be offering?
Factors affecting the sector and your operations and how you manage risk
8.What are the most immediate threats to the viability of your operation? Please list up to three.
9.What business risk management (BRM) tools do you currently use? For example: Livestock Price Insurance, Advance Payments Program, hedging, forage and crop insurance, AgriStability, AgriInvest, marketing strategies, etc?
10.Are there BRM tools MBP should be lobbying for?
11.MBP invests check-off dollars into research and technology. What are your priorities here? Please identify up to three.
12.What are the future opportunities for Manitoba's beef industry? Please identify up to three.
13.What are the potential challenges for Manitoba's beef industry? Please identify up to three.
14.What do you think are the three biggest threats facing the beef industry now and in the future?
A look at MBP's check-off and board structure

MBP’s activities are funded by a $3.00/head refundable check-off. The last time this check-off was increased was in 2014. Since then Manitoba’s herd size has shrunk (like the rest of Canada’s), resulting in less check-off revenue being collected. At the same time, MBP’s operating costs have been affected by the same types of rising costs affecting farmers, ranchers and other types of businesses and operations.
15.Would you support a future increase to the check-off to help cover the cost of operating MBP and the work it undertakes on behalf of the industry?
16.If the check-off were to increase by a certain amount, would you prefer that:
17.Do you believe the check-off should remain refundable or be non-refundable?
18.Please indicate the rationale for your answer to question #17.
19.MBP incurs administrative costs to issue refund requests. Some are for very few head of cattle sold. To help reduce administrative costs, would you support:
20.MBP currently has 14 directors on its board. Should this be reviewed with an eye to potentially reducing the number of districts and directors to 12 as is allowed in MBP's Act?
MBP meetings and communications tools
21.How many MBP district meetings (in-person or virtual) have you attended in the past five years?
22.If you haven't been to a MBP district meeting in the past five years, please share your reasons why.
23.How many in-person or virtual MBP annual general meetings (AGMs) have you attended in the past five years?
24.If you did not attend an in-person or virtual AGM over the past five years, why not?
25.Would you prefer a one-day or a two-day AGM?
26.MBP has been rotating the AGM location between Winnipeg and Brandon. Would you like to see additional locations be introduced to help make the meeting more accessible?
27.If yes to question #26, please list other potential locations for the meeting.
28.Do you receive MBP's free newspaper Cattle Country that is published 8x a year?
29.If yes, how would you describe your reading habits:
30.What section of Cattle Country is most relevant to you?
31.If you receive the newspaper, would you be supportive of a future move to a digital-only version of the publication?
32.Do you receive MBP's weekly E-Newsletter?
33.If you do not currently receive the weekly E-Newsletter, but would like to be added to the distribution list, please enter a valid email address:
34.Do you follow MBP on social media?
35.If you answered YES to question #34, please indicate which of the MBP social media platforms you follow:
36.From what MBP channels would you prefer to receive industry-related information?
37.Is the MBP website (www.mbbeef.ca) useful when you need to locate information about MBP, the beef sector, or for other questions you might have?
Help MBP best address your needs
38.What is MBP doing well on your behalf?
39.What could MBP be doing better or differently on your behalf?