Beef 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 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 ArticleFederal Judge Agrees with R-CALF USA’s Arguments on Beef Checkoff Being...
Great Falls, Mont. – A Montana federal judge yesterday released an initial ruling agreeing with R-CALF USA that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beef Checkoff program violates the First Amendment....
View ArticleR-CALF USA: GIPSA Rules Will Help Reverse Cattle Industry Decline
Billings, Mont. – Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed a set of rules to implement key provisions of the Packers and...
View ArticleGroup Responds to Beef Industry Publication Challenge
Billings, Mont. – The below statement can be attributed to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard: “R-CALF USA is pleased that Drovers’ editorial director, Greg Henderson, has challenged R-CALF USA in his recent...
View ArticleGroup Launches “COOLin100” Campaign
Billings, Mont. One of the staunchest supporters of mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) for beef, R-CALF USA, is launching a new campaign called “COOLin100.” The campaign calls on the new Trump...
View ArticleCattle Groups Support a Sonny Perdue and Charles Herbster USDA Team
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America “Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer” For Immediate Release: March 2, 2017 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516;...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Praises Bipartisan Beef Checkoff Reform Legislation
Billings, Mont. – Today, bipartisan legislation was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate to reform the most prominent government subsidy program in the U.S. cattle industry – the national beef checkoff...
View ArticleColorado Legislature May Save COOL
Billings, Mont. – On Monday at 1:30 p.m. MDT, cattle ranchers and consumers will be focused on the Colorado General Assembly’s House Agriculture, Livestock & Natural Resources Committee as it...
View ArticleColorado Democrats Defeat Effort to Reinstate COOL
Denver, Colo. – Yesterday, the Democratic leadership of the Colorado General Assembly’s House Agriculture, Livestock & Natural Resources Committee, Chair Jeni James Arndt and Vice-chair Diane...
View ArticleGroups Ask President to Shut Down USDA’s Animal ID Road Tour
Joint News Release Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, R-CALF USA, South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, and Western Organization of Resource Councils For Immediate Release: April 7, 2017 Contacts:...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Statement on Renewed Beef Access to China
Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement following the Financial Times report that President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping reached an agreement over...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Statement on Delay of GIPSA Rule
Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement following the two Federal Register notices published today that 1) extended for six months (to October 19, 2017) the...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Launches Public Petition to Ban Brazilian Beef Until COOL Is...
Billings, Mont. – In a public We the People petition launched yesterday and promoted on its Website, Facebook and Twitter pages, R-CALF USA seeks 100,000 signatures during the next 30 days to call on...
View ArticleR-CALF USA to Discuss State of U.S. Cattle Industry in Ohio
Billings, Mont.-The statewide Ohio cattle association, Buckeye Quality Beef Association, will host a public meeting featuring R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard to explain the precarious state of the U.S....
View ArticleWhy and How Mandatory COOL Should Be Reinstated Through the NAFTA Renegotiations
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Congress passed the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) law in 2002 to provide consumers with information as to the origins of their food. However, it was not until early 2013...
View ArticleR-CALF USA Seeks U.S. Probe into JBS Corruption Scandal
Billings, Mont. – Today, R-CALF USA sent a comprehensive, 11-page request to President Trump, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Agriculture...
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