what is Beef Counts?

Back in 2010, when leaders of our Washington Beef Community learned just how little high-quality protein, like beef, reaches our food bank system (only about 4% of all food donations), they felt that was unacceptable and set about to make a change. Beef Counts was launched in Washington state with the help of many producer volunteers, Agri Beef and the Washington State Beef Commission. Since 2010, our Washington Beef Community has delivered more than 2.5 million servings of beef to our neighbors in need.

Washington's Beef Community is proud to partner with Second Harvest and Rosauers Supermarkets & Super 1 Foods, in eastern Washington, to promote and grow the Beef Counts program. As a hunger relief agency, Second Harvest works with a network of food bank locations in hundreds of Washington communities and the grocery store partners are proud to raise awareness of hunger and fund-raise to help meet the need for high quality protein in the food bank system. The Beef Commission's role in Beef Counts is to promote and coordinate the good work of our Washington Beef Community as we unite against hunger. 

In addition to an annual donation of $50,000, Agri Beef Co processes and ships the donated beef from their Washington Beef plant in Toppenish. This means that 100% of every contribution from farmers and ranchers, the public and retail grocery store partners is used to supply more beef to those in need - not overhead or promotion.