2011

• 12/14/11 — R-CALF USA’s Opposition to USDA’s Proposed Mandatory Animal Identification Rule:  Part I of VIII-Part Series
• 12/13/11 — R-CALF Charges USDA with Numerous Improprieties in Connection with Agency’s Proposal to Mandate Animal Identification 
• 11/30/11 — R-CALF USA Issues a Baker’s Dozen List of Why Cattle Producers Should Oppose USDA’s New Mandatory Animal ID Rule
• 11/18/11 — U.S. Sovereignty Usurped by WTO’s COOL Decision 
• 11/8/11 — On Eve of Ag Secretary Vilsack’s Surrender to Corporate Packers, Packers Pummel Vanguards of Cattle Industry’s Price Discovery Market; R-CALF USA Calls for Multi-Agency Investigations
• 11/4/11 — Cattle Producers Still Waiting for Meaningful Reform of Broken Markets 
• 10/21/11 — Renewed Reports of Tainted Mexican Meat Highlight Need for USDA to Strengthen U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Rules for Consumers
• 10/10/11 — R-CALF USA Appeals to Congress to Flatly Reject Obama’s Three Free Trade Agreements; Claims Rural America Is at Stake
• 10/7/11 — USDA Agrees to Extend Deadline for Public Comments on New Animal ID Rule Non-Profits Representing Farmers and Ranchers Appealed to Sec. Vilsack, Applaud Decision 
• 09/29/11 — USDA Urged to Reject Japan’s Request for FMD Free Status; Agency Charged with Deceit 
• 09/28/11 — Groups Hold News Conference to Highlight Urgent Need for President Obama to Fulfill Campaign Promise Made to Rural America 
• 09/14/11 — Group Schedules News Conference in Heartland to Highlight Injustices Against Family Farmers and Ranchers: “Enough Is Enough” it Says of Obama Administration’s Agriculture Policies 
• 09/13/11 — Media Advisory – News Conference, St. Francis, Kans.
• 09/08/11 — USDA’s Mandatory Animal Identification Plan “Is a Packer’s Dream, a Beef Packer’s Dream,” Says R-CALF USA’s Animal ID Committee Chair 
• 09/08/11 — Group Praises U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for Preserving Funding for the Finalization of the GIPSA Rule and Denying Funds for FMD Lab in Kansas 
• 09/01/11 — EPA Declares Hay a Pollutant in Effort to Antagonize Small and Mid-Sized U.S. Cattle Feeders 
• 08/31/11 — Dust Flying in Countryside Over USDA Animal ID Proposal

• Farmers and Ranchers Appeal to Vilsack for Adequate Time to Respond 
• 08/30/11 — With 12 Years Behind Them, Members Continue Fighting to Improve Their U.S. Cattle Industry; New Resolutions Passed at 12^th Annual R-CALF USA Convention 
• 08/29/11 — On Eve of 12^th Annual Convention, Group Accuses USDA of Failing Miserably to Protect Health and Safety of U.S. Cattle Herd; Resolution Passed to Oppose USDA’s New Animal ID Plan
• 08/23/11 — USDA, OIG Asked to Put a Stop to USDA’s Pandering to Private Industry Interests: Checkoff Funds Used to Create an Elitist Group
• 08/18/11 — Cattlemen’s Beef Board Asked to Provide Straight Answers; Clarify NCBA’s Improper Coding of Checkoff Funds
• 08/09/11 — Correction and Clarification Regarding USDA’s Proposed Rule for Mandatory Animal Identification  
• 08/09/11 — USDA Spurns U.S. Cattle Industry: Issues Overreaching, Intrusive Mandatory Animal Identification Rule 
• 08/08/11 — Group Responds to USDA’s Update on Mandatory Animal Identification; Calls USDA’s New Plan a Broken Promise 
• 08/08/11 — New USDA Policy Directive on Meat Traceback Is Welcome News 
• 08/04/11 — Largest Class I Meat Recall in History Is Warning Signal that U.S. Must Reengineer Its Meatpacking Sector 
• 08/03/11 — 190 Cattle, Farm, Community, Church and Consumer Groups Urge U.S. Senate to Support GIPSA Rule 
• 07/28/11 — Cattle Group Tells White House “Don’t Lift FMD Restrictions for Brazil” 
• 07/25/11 — Group Grateful for House Introduction of Livestock Marketing Fairness Act that Promises to Put an End to a Serious, Anticompetitive Buying Practice  
• 07/08/11 — Cattle Groups Call on Senate Agriculture Committee Chair to Correct False Accusations Made by Kansas Senator Pat Roberts 
• 06/22/11 — On One-Year Anniversary of Proposed GIPSA Rule, Cattle Group Still Waiting for Rule’s Benefits 
• 06/16/11 — 217 House Republicans Pass Measure to Kill GIPSA Rule
• 06/06/11 — Department of Homeland Security Scoffs at Health Risks Identified by National Academy of Science Regarding FMD Research at Manhattan, Kansas 
• 05/26/11 — America’s Sovereignty Attacked by World Trade Organization 
• 05/25/11 — Congressional House Leaders Kowtow to Corporate Meatpackers to Help Them Force More Family Farmers, Ranchers Out of Business
• 05/19/11 — Industrial Agriculture, Congressional Members Deceive Public; Group Calls for Retraction of Letter It Says Contains False Information 
• 05/19/11 — Group Mourns Passing of Cattle Industry Champion Johnny Smith
• 05/03/11 — Criminal Probe of Entity that Convinced Homeland Security to Locate FMD Research in Kansas Warrants Immediate Withdrawal of NBAF Funding 
• 04/27/11 — Group Supports Checkoff Recommendations by Cattlemen’s Beef Board 
• 04/14/11 — Group’s Fact Sheet Disproves Assumptions Behind Effort to Change CME Feeder Cattle Index 
• 04/13/11 — Group to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack:  Don’t Be the Administration to Decommission the Hot-Iron Brand
• 04/05/11 — Interior Secretary Urged to Protect Ranchers’ Water, Grazing Rights 
• 04/04/11 — Group Intensifies Efforts to Urge Congress, Administration to Investigate Beef Checkoff Abuses, Finalize GIPSA Rule, and Defeat South Korean Free Trade Agreement
• 03/29/11 — Group to CFTC:  Lower Position Limits in Live Cattle, Feeder Cattle Markets 
• 03/28/11 — Mississippi’s Joel Gill Named Vice President of the Board 
• 03/23/11 — Group to Congress, Administration: Begin Enforcement of Antitrust Laws, Finalize GIPSA Rule, Take Immediate Steps to Eliminate Captive Supplies 
• 03/22/11 — Board Elects New President: Georgia’s George Chambers 
• 03/21/11 — Wyoming Rancher Urges Congress to Support GIPSA Rule 
• 03/16/11 — To Congress, Obama: Protect Ranchers’ Stockwater, Grazing Rights Against Interior Secretary’s ‘Wild Lands Order’
• 03/15/11 — Deal Breakers in USDA’s New Animal Disease Traceability Framework:  Delisting of Brands, Inclusion of Feeder Cattle, Unaddressed Imports of Diseased Cattle
• 03/15/11 — Longtime Friend and Supporter Derry Brownfield Dies 
• 03/08/11 — NCBA Proposal a Ploy to Artificially Break the Feeder Cattle Market 
• 03/04/11 — Group Asks: Why is U.S. Last to Know Canada Detected Its 19^th Case of BSE on Feb. 18?
• 03/02/11 — ‘Decades of Neglect’ Report Just Released Imbalance in U.S. Trade of Live Cattle, Beef, Beef Variety Meats, Processed Beef 
• 02/21/11 — Group Requests Enforcement Action by GIPSA, Justice Dept. Against JBS for Unlawful Market Transaction in Oct. ’09 
• 02/17/11 — CEO Testifies in Support of Wall Street Reform Act That Would Bring Transparency to Cattle Markets 
• 02/08/11 — Evidence Suggests Corruption Runs Deep in Beef Checkoff Program
• 02/07/11 — Wall Street Reform Act Already Benefiting Cattle Industry Nation’s Mega Beef Packer Involved in Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Cattle Futures Transaction that Resulted in a $220,000 Remedial Sanction Against a CME Futures Trader  
• 02/02/11 — 85 Groups to USDA: Make a Rule to Prohibit Meatpackers from Leveraging Captive Supply Livestock to Lower the Price-Discovery Market
• 01/17/11  — USDA, Justice Urged to Reject NCBA Ploy to Deflect Charges of Misuse of Beef Checkoff Funds; Full Investigation Requested 
• 01/04/11 — Group Submits Comments in CFTC Rulemakings Required to Implement Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act