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SUMMARY:Belle Fourche Livestock Calf Sale Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:What: Belle Fourche Livestock Market to Host R-CALF USA Calf Sale Fundraiser \nWhen: Noon\, MDT\, Thurs.\, April 4\, 2024 \nWhere: Belle Fourche Livestock Market\, 18662 Livestock Road\, Belle Fourche\, SD 57717 \nContacts:  \nR-CALF USA Checkoff Chair Vaughn Meyer\, (605) 430-4372 or sdangus@sdplains.com \nR-CALF USA Sheep Chair Bill Kluck\, (605) 645-8773 or echofarm@goldenwest.net \nR-CALF USA Member Rick Fox\, (605) 391-8215 \n  \nDescription: Belle Fourche Livestock Market LLC will host a rollover calf sale fundraiser auction at noon\, on Thursday\, April 4. R-CALF USA Checkoff Committee Chair and Sodak Angus Ranch owner\, Vaughn Meyer\, will donate a butcher-ready steer calf to be auctioned off. If necessary\, Meyer can transport the steer to a local butcher. \nRollover auctions are fundraising events put on by R-CALF USA volunteers to raise money for the organization. Those who wish to support the efforts of R-CALF USA can bid on the calf\, and then donate it back so it can be auctioned off again and again until bidding ceases. After the last rollover bid\, the calf is sold to the highest bidder with proceeds going to R-CALF USA. \nAccording to the Department of Agriculture’s recently released census data\, in the last five years\, the U.S. has lost over 107\,000 beef cattle ranches. Today\, only 622\,000 of America’s 1.3 million beef cattle ranches in 1980 remain. In 1982 there were 17\,000 full-time sheep operations\, and today less than 6\,400 of them remain. \nR-CALF USA works on various issues that will reverse America’s ranching crisis such as mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) on beef\, animal identification options\, beef checkoff reform\, sheep tariffs\, animal health concerns\, packer control of livestock\, as well as various trade agreements. R-CALF USA’s ongoing\, historic class-action antitrust case against the Big 4 meatpackers could prove to be the most significant event of the century in the U.S. cattle industry. \nR-CALF USA is set apart from all other national cattle associations because it relies 100 percent on membership dues and donations to carry out its mission to ensure the continued profitability and independence of United States cattle and sheep producers. This gives R-CALF USA the independence to take on the toughest\, most crucial challenges facing America’s cattle and sheep producers without fear that the government or a powerful advertiser or corporation will pull its funding. \nR-CALF USA encourages cattle and sheep producers and others to get involved and make their collective voices heard. Individuals or businesses supported by the U.S. cattle or sheep industries can contact Vaughn Meyer at (605) 430-4372 or sdangus@sdplains.com \, Bill Kluck at (605) 645-8773 or echofarm@goldenwest.net\, or Rick Fox at (605) 391-8215 to pledge a contribution for the rollover auction. Names of businesses or individual contributors who are unable to attend in person will be announced during the fundraiser. \n### \nActivities carried out by R-CALF USA for the benefit of the U.S. cattle and sheep industries are funded exclusively by the independent cattle and sheep producers who pay their membership dues and by livestock producers\, main-street businesses\, and other individuals who participate in and contribute to fundraising events. \nRanchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) is the largest producer-only lobbying and trade association representing U.S. cattle and sheep producers. It is a national\, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle and sheep industries. For more information\, please visit www.r-calfusa.com or call (406) 252-2516.
URL:https://www.r-calfusa.com/event/belle-fourche-livestock-calf-sale-fundraiser/
CATEGORIES:Livestock Fundraisers
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SUMMARY:Sheep Producer Meeting
DESCRIPTION:What: R-CALF USA To Host Sheep Producer Meeting \nWhen: 5 p.m. MDT\, Thurs.\, April 11\, 2024 \nWhere: High Plains Restaurant\, 105 S. Dartmouth Ave.\, Newell\, SD 57760 \nContact: R-CALF USA Sheep Chair Bill Kluck\, (605) 645-8773 or echofarm@goldenwest.net \n  \nDescription: R-CALF USA Sheep Committee Chair Bill Kluck will host an informational meeting after the sheep sale at 5 p.m. on Thursday\, April 11\, at the High Plains Restaurant\, 105 S. Dartmouth Ave.\, in Newell\, South Dakota. The meeting is free and open to all independent sheep producers or anyone interested in the sheep industry. Dinner will not be provided. \nKluck will discuss R-CALF USA’s petition for relief on behalf of American sheep producers and why Congress needs to pass legislation to enact tariffs on imported lamb and mutton to save the U.S. sheep industry from price-depressing imports. Jim Selchert from U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds’ (R-S.D.) office will attend the meeting. \nOn August 3\, 2023\, Protect American Lamb\, a project under the auspices of the R-CALF USA Sheep Committee\, petitioned the United States Trade Representative for relief from lamb and mutton imports. Our petition requests our U.S. Trade Ambassador to direct the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct a Global Safeguard Investigation and it asks Congress to establish tariffs on imported lamb and mutton to encourage regrowth in our U.S. sheep industry. \nR-CALF USA represents the U.S. cattle and sheep industries in trade and marketing issues to ensure the continued profitability and viability of independent U.S. cattle and sheep producers. It relies solely on membership dues and donations to carry out its mission to ensure the continued profitability and independence of U.S. cattle and sheep producers. It exists only because of support from its members. R-CALF USA encourages producers to get involved and make their collective voice heard. \n### \nRanchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) is the largest producer-only cattle trade association in the United States. It is a national\, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle and sheep industries. For more information\, visit www.r-calfusa.com or call (406) 252-2516 for more information.
URL:https://www.r-calfusa.com/event/sheep-producer-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Director To Speak at BQBA Meeting
DESCRIPTION:What: R-CALF USA Director To Speak at Buckeye Quality Beef Association Meeting \nWhen: 2 p.m. EDT\, Sun.\, April 14\, 2024 \nWhere: Perry Township Fire Department\, 4625 Boggs Rd.\, Zanesville\, OH 43701 \nContacts: R-CALF USA Region VIII Director Dave Hyde (740) 381-2699 or  dhydefarm@windstream.net; or BQBA President Larry Queen queenfarm5488@gmail.com; or Vic Sellers wvs01@icloud.com \n  \nDescription: The Buckeye Quality Beef Association (BQBA)\, an R-CALF USA affiliate organization\, will host a meeting at 2 p.m. on Sunday\, April 14\, at the Perry Township Fire Department located at 4625 Boggs Road in Zanesville\, Ohio. \nThe meeting is open to all cattle producers and will include discussion on policy and current legislation. R-CALF USA Region VIII Director Dave Hyde\, of Bloomingdale\, will give an R-CALF USA update. \nR-CALF USA represents the U.S. cattle and sheep industries in trade and marketing issues to ensure the continued profitability and viability of independent U.S. cattle and sheep producers. It is the largest producer-only organization fighting to bring back mandatory country of origin labeling for beef\, to stop anticompetitive and unjust practices by the four largest packers\, to prevent high-risk imports from countries with disease outbreaks\, to allow U.S. cattle producers to promote their USA beef within the beef checkoff program and make the checkoff voluntary\, and to seek tariffs to save the U.S. sheep industry from price-depressing imports. \nR-CALF USA is set apart from all other national cattle associations because it relies solely on membership dues and donations to carry out its mission to ensure the continued profitability and independence of United States cattle and sheep producers. It exists only because of support from its members. R-CALF USA encourages producers to get involved and make their collective voice heard. \n### \nRanchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) is the largest producer-only cattle trade association in the United States. It is a national\, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle and sheep industries. For more information\, visit www.r-calfusa.com or call (406) 252-2516 for more information.
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