Group Informs Ag Secretary of Its Members’ Checkoff Policies
November 3, 2014 Billings, Mont. – In a letter sent today to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, R-CALF USA provided a list of primary and secondary elements to be included in […]
Producer-Paid Checkoffs Help Meatpacking Lobby Sustain COOL Fight
September 15, 2014 Billings, Mont. – On Friday the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), the American Meat Institute (AMI) and other foreign and domestic meatpacking […]
36 Groups Urge Ag Secretary to Enforce Beef Checkoff Program’s Prohibition Against Conflicts of Interest; Urge Other Reforms
September 11, 2014 Washington, DC – In the wake of this weekend’s announcement by the National Farmers Union (NFU) that it was withdrawing from the Beef Checkoff Enhancement Working Group […]
USDA Approves Checkoff Advertisements Featuring “North American Beef”
May 6, 2014 Billings, Mont. – Last February R-CALF USA submitted a complaint to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack alleging unlawful use of U.S. beef checkoff program dollars in advertisements that […]
R-CALF USA: COOL Litigation Supported by Producer Checkoff Dollars
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 labeling (COOL) rule have already directly […]