Archive for Competition Issues
R-CALF USA Comments on Competitive Injury Portion and Unfair Practices Portion of GIPSA Rules
R-CALF USA submitted comments to GIPSA regarding Competitive Injury and Unfair Practices Proposed Rule.
Group Responds to Beef Industry Publication Challenge
Billings, Mont. – The below statement can be attributed to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard: “R-CALF USA is pleased that Drovers’ editorial director, Greg Henderson, has challenged R-CALF USA in his recent editorial, “The Front Gate: Tilting at Windmills.” “The best way critical-thinking readers can learn who best represents their…
R-CALF USA: GIPSA Rules Will Help Reverse Cattle Industry Decline
Billings, Mont. – Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed a set of rules to implement key provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA). The Fair Practices Rules, previously known as the GIPSA rules, are intended to facilitate competition…
R-CALF USA Shares 100-Day Strategy with 1,200 Ranchers in Dakotas
Speaking to about 1,200 ranchers who attended one of six meetings held November 10-15 in the Dakotas, R-CALF USA gained support for a plan it wants President-elect Donald Trump to implement during his first 100 days in office. Herman Schumacher, the group’s co-founder and a South Dakota cattle feeder, organized…
More Livestock Auction Yards to Host Meetings on Cattle Price Collapse
Billings, Mont. – Two more South Dakota livestock auction yards have joined with the four livestock auction yards in North and South Dakota that previously announced they would be hosting meetings November 10 thru 15 to explore the causes of the current cattle-price collapse and identify steps that can be…
R-CALF USA Presents Urgent Cattle Industry Priorities for New Congress
Billings, Mont. – In a prepared statement presented this week during the 2018 Farm Bill listening session sponsored by Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), R-CALF USA said the need for major changes is urgent if Congress wants to prevent the U.S. cattle industry from going the way of the packer-controlled poultry,…
Open Letter to U.S. Cattle Producers
September 2016 Dear Cattle Producing Friend, What does the rest of 2016 have in store for your U.S. cattle industry? The answer is up to us. After 18 years of herd liquidation that started in 1996, cattle inventories fell to a 73-year low while over 171,000 beef cattle producers and…
R-CALF USA: Dominant Meatpackers Are Now Too Big to Regulate
Billings, Mont. – According to R-CALF USA, antitrust and competition enforcement agencies have failed miserably to prevent multinational meatpackers from manipulating cattle prices and controlling the cattle and beef markets, resulting in financial harm to both cattle producers and beef consumers. “No other conclusion can be drawn from the circumstances…
R-CALF USA Convention to Include Surrogate Presidential Candidate Speakers
Billings, Mont. – National cattle trade association R-CALF USA invited representatives from the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns to address the group’s 17th Annual Convention to be held August 26-27 at the Little America Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The letters of invitation identify nine key issues the group…