07/30/2009 03:52PM
A controversial food safety bill failed to win the two-thirds approval required for passage yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill is expected to be brought before the full House again this week under regular orders, which require only a simple majority for passage.
Earlier this
07/02/2009 10:09AM
Kansas Ag Statistics (KAS) will continue to report cattle prices from auction markets at Salina and Pratt through the end of this month as a long-term funding source is identified. The extension resulted from KLA meeting with KAS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) to discuss the importance
07/01/2009 04:33PM
U.S. red meat companies taking advantage of the USDA’s Branded Products Promotion Program – administered through USMEF – rang up $6,920,063 in sales of U.S. beef and pork to international buyers in fiscal year 2008, an increase of nearly 27 percent over the previous year.
The Branded Products Promotion
06/30/2009 10:05AM
NCBA is part of an informal coalition of companies and organizations asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its finding that greenhouse gas emissions attributed to humans are an endangerment to public health and welfare. The finding, proclaimed by EPA in April, is the first step
06/26/2009 09:58AM
EPA Should Reevaluate Science Behind Proposed Climate Change Endangerment Finding The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) and an informal coalition of companies and trade associations representing U.S. energy and mining sectors submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency
06/26/2009 09:45AM
Two members of Congress from Kansas were instrumental in passing amendments that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using funds to issue regulations that could implement the so-called “cow tax.” Language in both amendments would preclude EPA from mandating Clean Air Act permits
06/19/2009 09:29AM
Senate Subcommittee Sets Stage for Biggest Federal Land Grab in History
The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed S. 787, the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) out of committee today on a party-line vote, bringing the country one step closer to the largest federal land grab in
05/21/2009 07:52AM
Weiser, Idaho – Western ranchers welcomed introduction of a bill to stop unfair and manipulative practices by meatpackers that harm independent livestock producers.
U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., introduced today the Livestock
07/08/2008 06:44PM
Judge Does Order New Notice & Comment Period on OTM Rule
U.S.-Canada trade sidestepped another multi- million dollar economic penalty when the Eighth District Court refused to allow R-CALF's latest play in its long-running campaign attacking cattlemen and packers who trade and beef-buying consumers