11/06/2009 12:37PM
Arthur Uhl, member of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA)
and chairman of NCBA's Tax and Credit Committee, testified on Wednesday
at a U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee hearing on
the estate tax.
11/06/2009 09:24AM
Farmers and ranchers from across Kansas gathered this week in Topeka
for an in-depth training on how to be advocates for agriculture. Ten
industry leaders representing KLA
participated in the two-day event.
11/06/2009 08:42AM
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and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management,
and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and
operators.
11/05/2009 09:41AM
Livestock producers need a national organization to protect their
interests more than ever. New NCBA Chief Executive Officer Forrest
Roberts will describe challenges facing the industry during his
presentation December 4 at the KLA Convention.
11/05/2009 07:13AM
In comments filed Tuesday with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), R-CALF USA laid out how the world marketplace for cattle and beef is one of the most grossly distorted markets of any sector, and how the inability to achieve any semblance of balance between disparate tariffs, subsidies and sanitary/phytosanitary (SPS) standards has wreaked havoc upon, and threatens to destroy, the U.S. live cattle industry, which historically has been the single largest segment of U.S. agriculture and which also provides the economic cornerstones for most rural communities across the United States.