R-CALF USA Responds to Dubious TPP Testimony and NCBA Jabs
Billings, Mont. – 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...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Urges Senate Ag Committee to Reject Voluntary COOL
Billings, Mont. – In a letter sent yesterday to the members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee (Committee) R-CALF USA urged the rejection of any effort to create a...
View ArticleGroups Oppose CME Group’s Discount Plan for South Dakota Cattle Deliveries
Billings, Mont. – In comments sent today, R-CALF USA and the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association (SDSGA) jointly urged the CME Group to withdraw its plan to impose a seasonal discount of $1.50/cwt on...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Sends Multiple Requests to Senate Judiciary Committee: Investigate...
Billings, Mont. – 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...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary Committee Approves R-CALF USA’s Request to Investigate...
Billings, Mont. – In response to R-CALF USA’s January request, the Senate Judiciary Committee last week requested the Comptroller General of the United States to use his agency, the Government...
View ArticleIndependent Cattle Ranchers Sue Federal Dept. of Agriculture Over Beef...
Independent Cattle Ranchers Sue Federal Dept. of Agriculture Over Beef Checkoff Program Group Says Ad Campaigns Improperly Use Tax Dollars to Undermine U.S. Beef Billings, MT – The Ranchers-Cattlemen...
View ArticleMeatpackers Cite Outdated Studies in Attack Against Senator Grassley’s Ban on...
According to R-CALF USA, Barry Carpenter, President and CEO of the packers’ largest international trade association, the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), cited outdated studies in his attack...
View ArticleUSITC Report Predicts Exceedingly Small Benefits for U.S. Beef Packers While...
Billings, Mont. – Today the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) issued findings from its investigation into the likely impacts the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement...
View ArticleSupporters Urge Congress to Take Action and Pass Meaningful Commodity...
Joint News Release Contact: Bill Bullard (406-252-2516) Fred Stokes: (601-527-2459) July 14, 2016 Washington, DC – More than 140 organizations, ranchers, farmers and businesses applaud Senators Booker...
View ArticleR-CALF USA: USDA’s Action to Allow Raw Brazilian Beef Imports Is Purely...
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...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Convention to Include Surrogate Presidential Candidate Speakers
Billings, Mont. – National cattle trade association R-CALF USA invited representatives from the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns to address the group’s 17th Annual Convention to...
View ArticleR-CALF USA’s Attorneys Seek Quick End to Beef 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...
View ArticleR-CALF USA: Dominant Meatpackers Are Now Too Big to Regulate
Billings, Mont. – According to R-CALF USA, antitrust and competition enforcement agencies have failed miserably to prevent multinational meatpackers from manipulating cattle prices and controlling the...
View ArticleBeef Checkoff Battle Heats Up in Federal 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....
View ArticleOpen Letter to U.S. Cattle Producers
September 2016 Dear Cattle Producing Friend, What does the rest of 2016 have in store for your U.S. cattle industry? The answer is up to us. After 18 years of herd liquidation that started in 1996,...
View ArticleLivestock Auction Yards to Explore Causes, Solutions to Cattle Price Collapse
Billings, Mont. – In the wake of falling cattle prices, which have fallen farther and faster than in any time in history, livestock auction yards in central and eastern South Dakota and North Dakota...
View ArticlePresidential Candidates Invited To R-CALF USA’s 17th Annual Convention: Trump...
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...
View ArticleMore Livestock Auction Yards to Host Meetings on Cattle Price Collapse
Billings, Mont. – Two more South Dakota livestock auction yards have joined with the four livestock auction yards in North and South Dakota that previously announced they would be hosting meetings...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Shares 100-Day Strategy with 1,200 Ranchers in Dakotas
Speaking to about 1,200 ranchers who attended one of six meetings held November 10-15 in the Dakotas, R-CALF USA gained support for a plan it wants President-elect Donald Trump to implement during his...
View ArticleOpen Letter to U.S. Cattle Producers
September 2016 Dear Cattle Producing Friend, What does the rest of 2016 have in store for your U.S. cattle industry? The answer is up to us. After 18 years of herd liquidation that started in 1996,...
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