R-Calf USA
R-CALF responds to USDA's update on mandatory animal identification
R-CALF USA Animal Identification Committee Chair Kenny Fox provided a written response last week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS’) recent blog article by Dr. John Clifford, APHIS’ Deputy Administrator and Chief Veterinary Officer.
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R-CALF: Group grateful for house introduction of Livestock Marketing Fairness Act
R-CALF USA praises Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) for their sponsorship and co-sponsorshi p, respectively, of H.R. 2631: the bipartisan Livestock Marketing Fairness Act (Act) introduced in Congress on Monday.
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R-Calf elects George Chambers to be new president
R-CALF USA Directors recently elected a new president and vice president of the board, as the organization’s bylaws provide that officers shall serve 2-year terms.
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R-Calf attacks free-trade agreements in new report
R-CALF USA has just released its 2011 report titled “U.S. Trade Balance in the Trade of Live Cattle, Beef, Beef Variety Meats, and Processed Beef: Decades of Neglect,” and the picture it paints is that the promises made by free trade idealists have not materialized for cattle producers
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R-CALF: U.S. Policies To Blame For Beef Export Restrictions
In separate meetings held recently with Democrat and Republican staff members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard and former R-CALF USA director David Hutchins provided a presentation that demonstrates the U.S. has given beef export markets a legitimate reason to impose strict age restrictions on U.S. beef exports to prevent the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) from being introduced into their respective countries.
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R-CALF: Members, Affiliates Urge Reforms To Revitalize Rural America
Six R-CALF USA member cattle producers from Wisconsin, Ohio, South Dakota and North Dakota, as well as representatives of these R-CALF USA affiliates – the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association (SDSGA), the Independent Beef Association of North Dakota (I-BAND), and the Buckeye Quality Beef Association (BQBA) – convened here last week to participate in the final joint competition workshop hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice (Justice) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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R-CALF: Members, Affiliates Urge Reforms To Revitalize Rural America
Six R-CALF USA member cattle producers from Wisconsin, Ohio, South Dakota and North Dakota, as well as representatives of these R-CALF USA affiliates – the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association (SDSGA), the Independent Beef Association of North Dakota (I-BAND), and the Buckeye Quality Beef Association (BQBA) – convened here last week to participate in the final joint competition workshop hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice (Justice) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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R-CALF: CEO: We Support USDA Plan To Conduct New Cost/Benefit Analysis of GIPSA Rule
“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told participants on a Monday conference call that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a new cost/benefit analysis of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration’s (GIPSA’s) proposed competition rule (GIPSA rule), and R-CALF USA supports him in those efforts.
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R-CALF: CEO: We Support USDA Plan To Conduct New Cost/Benefit Analysis of GIPSA Rule
“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told participants on a Monday conference call that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a new cost/benefit analysis of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration’s (GIPSA’s) proposed competition rule (GIPSA rule), and R-CALF USA supports him in those efforts.
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R-CALF: NCBA, NPPC Help Packers Capture U.S. Cattle Supply Chain
In its 72-page formal comments (comments) filed Nov. 22, 2010, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) regarding the agency’s proposed competition rule (GIPSA rule), R-CALF USA accuses the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) of deceiving and misleading the public regarding the condition of the U.S. cattle industry in an effort to help multinational meatpackers capture “control of the live cattle supply chain away from the nation’s independent cattle farmers and ranchers.”
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R-CALF: Congress Hears From Real Producers Why GIPSA Rule Needed
As a finale prior to the Nov. 22, 2010, deadline for public comments on the livestock competition rule (GIPSA rule) proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), a diverse group of livestock, poultry and farm organizations called the Competition Coalition sponsored separate briefing sessions for House and Senate congressional offices this week to explain why the GIPSA rule is needed to restore transparency and fairness to livestock and poultry markets accessed by the nation’s family farmers and ranchers.
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