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.

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.

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.

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

R-CALF: Group Praises Vilsack For His Concerns About NCBA, Beef Checkoff

R-CALF USA’s Checkoff Committee today formally thanked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for his letter to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) which expressed his concerns about the restructuring recommended by the NCBA Governance Task Force (GTF) and the possible effect on the status of the Federation of State Beef Councils (Federation).

R-CALF: Group Meets To Discuss Future Of Rural America

R-CALF USA spent a week talking with its members. No flashy displays, no corporate rhetoric, just a long conversation with the heart of R-CALF USA – its cattle farmer and rancher members. Through a serious of meetings in Nebraska, R-CALF USA Nebraska Chair Louie Day, CEO Bill Bullard and Membership Services Coordinator Laurel Masterson had an ongoing dialog with R-CALF USA members throughout Nebraska.

R-CALF: Broad-Based Coalition Forms To Protect U.S. Livestock Health

Thirty-four organizations, representing livestock associations, consumer groups, trade groups and manufacturing interests, are jointly participating in the Coalition to Protect the Health of the U.S. Livestock Herd to convince the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately withdraw its plans to lift foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) restrictions for Brazil.

R-CALF: Groups Invited To Create Informal Coalition To Stop USDA From Endangering U.S. Livestock Health

R-CALF USA is circulating a coalition sign-on letter to consumer organizations, farm and cattle organizations, and other groups to urge Congress to introduce and pass new legislation that will protect domestic livestock and U.S. citizens from the introduction of the dangerous foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus.

R-CALF: Group Asks CFTC To Reform Regulations For Cattle Futures Market

R-CALF USA believes the commodities futures market is fundamentally broken and is no longer functionally capable of serving as an effective, economic risk management tool for U.S. cattle producers.

R-CALF: 25 Groups Ask Congress To Pre-empt USDA's Rule To Lift FMD Restrictions From Brazil

Twenty-five farm, ranch, manufacturing, labor, and consumer groups sent a joint letter to 11 members of Congress this week to urge them to introduce and pass new legislation that would strengthen the United States’ protections against the introduction of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).