R-CALF USA Urges Nebraska Senators to Defend Livestock Market 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 […]
R-CALF USA to USITC: TPP Will Harm U.S. Cattle and Sheep Producers
Washington, D.C. – 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 […]
R-CALF USA: BLM Exceeded Its Authority When It Approved American Prairie Reserve Request
Billings, Mont. – In a formal protest submitted yesterday to the Malta, Montana, field office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), R-CALF USA asserts the agency overstepped its authority. […]
R-CALF USA Requests Senate Judiciary Committee Investigation into 2015 Cattle Price Collapse
Billings, Mont. – In a formal request sent today to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Committee), R-CALF USA seeks an investigation into potential antitrust and anticompetitive conduct in […]
A Dilatory Congress and Indifferent Executive Branch Strip Citizens of their Right to Know the Origins of their Food
Billings, Mont. – Although their deadline for completing and passing the nation’s fiscal year 2016 spending bill expired 79 days ago, today both houses of Congress cheered as the President […]
R-CALF USA Says Congress Forsakes Consumers and Producers in COOL Repeal
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 […]
R-CALF USA Appeals to Presidential Frontrunners to Defend Mandatory COOL
Billings, Mont. – In what R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard acknowledges is a Hail Mary effort to preserve mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), today the group overnighted letters to Donald Trump […]
R-CALF USA Statement on WTO COOL Ruling
R-CALF USA Statement on WTO COOL Ruling Correction: The WTO award for Canada was in Canadian dollars. The statement below has been corrected by converting Canadian dollars to U.S. dollars. […]
R-CALF USA to President, Congress: Capitulating to the WTO on COOL will Severely Compromise the United States’ Global Standing
In a letter sent today to President Barack Obama and Senate agriculture committee leaders, R-CALF USA provided a plan forward for the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. On Monday, […]