Archive for News Releases
African and Brazilian Beef Imports Are Deliberate Attempt to Destabilize U.S. Cattle Industry
For Immediate Release: February 24, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said today that the Agriculture Secretary’s opening the U.S. market to fresh beef imports from Brazil and Namibia, Africa, are deliberate attempts by both the government and…
Ranch Group Seeks Comment Period Extension in USDA’s Undue Preference Rule
For Immediate Release: February 20, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a formal letter sent today to the Packers and Stockyards Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA-AMS), R-CALF USA requests that the agency extend the comment period…
Ranch Group Seeks Supplemental Order in RFID Case
For Immediate Release: February 19, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Yesterday, Harriet Hageman, Senior Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt…
Groups Circulate Petitions to Preserve Animal Identification Options
For Immediate Release: February 18, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com ***Every U.S. cattle producer urged to sign the petition at www.StopMandatoryRFID.com or use links in press release below.*** Billings, Mont. – In the wake of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) failed effort to prohibit…
Court Satisfied that USDA’s RFID Mandate Is Completely Withdrawn
For Immediate Release: February 17, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Last week the Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of…
Cattle Producers Inform Court RFID Mandate Is Not Resolved
For Immediate Release: February 10, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Last week the attorney for R-CALF USA and several individual rancher-plaintiffs, who alleged in October that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated…
R-CALF USA to Challenge Ruling in Checkoff Case; Ruling Affirms Progress Already Made in Reforming Checkoff
For Immediate Release: January 31, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – On Wednesday, the magistrate judge assigned to R-CALF USA’s lawsuit alleging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) operation of the beef checkoff program violates the constitutional rights of U.S. cattle producers issued…
Rural America Now Dependent on Congress to Fix USMCA’s Glaring Deficiency
For Immediate Release: January 29, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), describing it as a modernization of the antiquated, 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump had described NAFTA as a…
Statement on Final Senate Passage of USMCA
Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement today regarding the final Senate passage of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). “We are deeply disappointed that the U.S. Senate has ignored the interests of United States cattle farmers and ranchers by voting to extend the 25-year-old NAFTA agreement…