Proposed COOL Rule Mandates Ag Secretary’s Four-Year-Old Request
Proposed COOL Rule Mandates Ag Secretary’s Four-Year-Old Request March 11, 2013 Billings, Mont. – Four years ago Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a letter to food industry representatives signaling to […]
Groups Urge Rejection of Shuanghui’s Acquisition of Smithfield Foods
Washington, D.C. – In preparation for today’s Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the proposal by Chinese-owned Shuanghui International Holdings, Ltd. (Shuanghui) to purchase U.S.-owned Smithfield foods (Smithfield), R-CALF USA and 16 […]
Groups Urge Rejection of Shuanghui’s Acquisition of Smithfield Foods
July 10, 2013 Washington, D.C. – In preparation for today’s Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the proposal by Chinese-owned Shuanghui International Holdings, Ltd. (Shuanghui) to purchase U.S.-owned Smithfield foods (Smithfield), […]
R-CALF USA: COOL Litigation Supported by Producer Checkoff Dollars
July 9, 2013 Billings, Mont. – At least three of the eight plaintiffs that filed a lawsuit July 8 against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) final country of origin […]
More than 35,000 Consumers and Farmers Urge USDA to Protect Country-of-Origin Labels
More than 35,000 Consumers and Farmers Urge USDA to Protect Country-of-Origin Labels Widespread Public Support for USDA Proposed Rule as Comment Period Concludes April 9, 2013 Washington, D.C.—Consumers and farmers […]
R-CALF USA Calls OIG Checkoff Audit a Colossal Whitewash
April 8, 2013 Billings, Mont. – In a formal complaint sent Friday to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General Phyllis Fong, R-CALF USA […]
Court Grants Four Groups’ Right to Defend COOL
Farm, Ranch and Consumer Groups Allowed to Defend Merits of Commonsense Labels October 3, 2013 Washington, D.C. – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted R-CALF […]
Deadline Looms for U.S. to Unwind WTO’s COOL Clock: R-CALF USA Offers a Solution
“R-CALF USA is so determined to preserve COOL that it is aggressively fighting in all three branches of the U.S. government to defend it.” December 27, 2012 Billings, MT – […]
Cattle, Farm and Consumer Groups Join Together to Urge Vigorous Review of JBS Merger Proposal
Billings, MT – Five statewide cattle groups and R-CALF USA joined in a letter with 37 U.S.-based farm and consumer groups to collectively urge the U.S. Department of Justice (Justice Department) to “undertake […]