Group Opposes USDA Plan to Establish Another International Bureaucracy
July 15, 2014 Billings, Mont. – In comments filed last night, R-CALF USA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to abandon its plan […]
Former GIPSA Chief Sets Record Straight After Personal Attacks From Industrial Agriculture Activist
June 25, 2014 Billings, Mont. – In a recently published article, J. Dudley Butler, immediate past administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), […]
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 Statement on House Appropriations Committee’s Passage of Agriculture Appropriation’s Bill
May 29, 2014 Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee’s passage of the FY 2015 Agriculture […]
Farmers, Ranchers and Consumers Urge Congress to Reject Harmful Appropriations Policy Riders on COOL and Farmer Protections
May 19, 2014 Washington, D.C.—Today, farm, rural, consumer, labor and environmental groups from across the United States delivered two separate letters to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees urging them […]
Brazil's Second Reported BSE Case Raises Food Safety Concerns
May 6. 2014 Billings, Mont. – On Monday the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) provided notice that Brazil confirmed its second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this time in […]
Brazil’s Second Reported BSE Case Raises Food Safety Concerns
May 6. 2014 Billings, Mont. – On Monday the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) provided notice that Brazil confirmed its second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this time in […]
Cattle Group Minces No Words in Opposition to USDA’s Plan to Import Fresh Beef from FMD-Affected Brazil
April 24, 2014 Billings, Mont. – In strongly worded public comments, R-CALF USA criticized the plan by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to […]
Cattle Groups Square Off with HSUS over Domestic Horse Slaughter
February 21, 2013 Billings, Mont. – Yesterday R-CALF USA joined with other groups and individuals to counter the Humane Society of the United States’ (HSUS’) efforts to block the humane […]