Grassley, Tester defend farmers; Perdue defends the meatpackers
Billings, Mont. – In a joint letter sent Oct. 18, to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Jon Tester (D-MT) told the Secretary they “vehemently disagree” with his decision to abandon the...
Oklahoma ranchers seeking Supreme Court Intervention in State Checkoff Referendum
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Today, (Oct. 23) Oklahoma members of the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and R-CALF USA joined together to file with the Oklahoma Supreme Court an application for original jurisdiction requesting the...
Ranch Group Urges Perdue to Keep GIPSA a Stand-Alone Agency
Billings, Mont. – In strongly worded comments sent to the office of the U.S. Agriculture Secretary over the weekend, R-CALF USA urged that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration...
National and state cattle groups urge Congress to restore lost competition
Billings, Mont. – Yesterday, national cattle association R-CALF USA, along with over 15 state and local groups representing America’s cattle ranchers, joined in a letter with 210 organizations to send a strong message to Congress...
R-CALF USA accuses USDA of falsifying outcome of Animal ID meetings
Billings, Mont. – On Sept. 27, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) unveiled its new strategy to expand its mandatory animal identification program at the private sectors’...
Ranch group supports 12 NAFTA improvements
Billings, Mont. – Although R-CALF USA and several other member-groups of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) had already weighed-in with the Trump Administration on the need to reform the North American Free Trade...
R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard to testify at NAFTA hearing
Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard is scheduled to testify before a hearing of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Tuesday to discuss his group’s recommendations on how to modernize...
R-CALF USA to USTR: 7 fixes to NAFTA
Billings, Mont. – In comprehensive comments submitted yesterday to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), R-CALF USA states the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) benefited transnational meatpackers at the expense...
R-CALF USA Seeks U.S. Probe into JBS Corruption Scandal
On June 6, R-CALF USA sent a comprehensive, 11-page request to President Trump, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for a full investigation and strict antitrust...
R-CALF USA: Trump rep, others speak about cattle industry issues
Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA’s annual membership conventions have evolved over the past 17 years. Despite overlapping four presidential elections, never before did the group extend invitations to presidential candidates. But this year it did...
R-CALF USA: Urgent priorities for new Congress
Billings, Mont. – In a prepared statement presented this week during the 2018 Farm Bill listening session sponsored by Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), R-CALF USA said the need for major changes is urgent if Congress...
Beef checkoff battle heats up in fed court
Billings, Mont. – A flurry of motions were filed recently in the lawsuit filed by R-CALF USA against the national beef checkoff program (Beef Checkoff). The group’s lawsuit was filed May 2 in the U.S....
R-CALF’s attorney seeks quick end to checkoff lawsuit
Billings, Mont. – In response to the government’s August motion to dismiss or stay the lawsuit R-CALF USA filed against the national beef checkoff program (Beef Checkoff) in May, late yesterday R-CALF USA’s attorneys asked...
R-CALF USA: USDA’s action to allow raw Brazilian beef imports is reckless
Billings, Mont. – “Today’s announcement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stating he is reopening the U.S. market to raw Brazilian beef and Brazil is reopening its market to U.S. beef is a political tit-for-tat that...
R-CALF USA requests U.S. Attorney General block mega feedlot merger
Billings, Mont. – In a letter sent yesterday to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, her deputy, and the leadership of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, R-CALF USA requests immediate antitrust enforcement action to block the...
R-CALF to Senate Judiciary: Investigate Price Collapse
In its highly detailed and well-documented first request to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (Committee), R-CALF USA provides evidence indicating that antitrust and anticompetitive conduct by dominant meatpackers and certain traders in the cattle futures...
R-CALF USA testimony: TPP will hurt cattle industry
During a formal hearing held recently by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), representatives of the world’s largest multinational meatpackers praised the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement. Hearing witnesses representing U.S. livestock and...
R-CALF USA to Nebraska senators: defend competition
Billings, Mont.- In a letter sent yesterday to Nebraska’s unicameral senators, R-CALF USA urged the defeat of a bill that would weaken the state’s Competitive Livestock Markets Act. Nebraska’s legislative bill, LB 176, would allow...
R-CALF USA: TPP will harm U.S. producers
In testimony presented today to the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), R-CALF USA urged the commission to recommend the rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard testified the...
R-CALF USA: COOL repeal deprives consumers of rights
R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement in response to Congress’ inclusion of language in the must-pass omnibus spending bill that would repeal country-of- origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork and ground beef...
