R-Calf USA
R-CALF: USDA’s Proposed Brazil-FMD Rule Inaccurate, Unscientific
R-CALF USA today called the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s)
proposed rule to lift foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) restrictions on
Brazil inaccurate and unscientific.
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R-CALF: 32 Groups Urge USDA/USTR To Reverse Plans To Relax FMD Standards For Brazil
Thirty-two groups on Monday finalized a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) requesting that both agencies immediately abandon plans to relax U.S. foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) restrictions regarding Brazilian beef and other Brazilian livestock products.
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Group Pleased To See Poultry Growers Win Competition Case Against Tyson Foods
R-CALF USA was pleased to learn that a court in McCurtain County, Okla., ruled in favor of some poultry producers in their allegations of deceptive and coercive business practices on the part of Tyson Foods Inc. (Tyson).
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R-CALF: Group To Homeland Security: Protect Ranch Families Along U.S.-Mexican Border
R-CALF USA directors have called upon Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to not only support a recommendation by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., to establish a Border Patrol Forward Operating Base in the region known as New Mexico’s boot heel, but also to do much more to fully protect the sovereignty, safety and security of U.S. citizens, particularly the U.S. ranch families along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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R-CALF: Group Supports Tester's Meat Safety & Accountability Act
R-CALF USA wants to publicly thank Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., for introducing his Meat Safety and Accountability Act, which would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to trace contaminated meat all the way back to the original source of contamination.
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- New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
- Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
- The relationship between retail gasoline prices and futures prices
- Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
- Domestic ethanol production starts to grow again
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
