Groups 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 […]
R-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 […]
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 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free […]
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 […]