R-CALF USA
Action Alert: Tell Congress Now: Help Farmers and Ranchers Help America.
Background: Amid this COVID-19 crisis, American consumers are scared and panicked. They need assurance that our nation’s family cattle farmers and ranchers can continually provide them the best, safest and most wholesome beef in the world at affordable prices. But we’re continually losing cattle producers because our cattle market is…
New Website Aims to Connect Americans to Nearest Cattle Producers for Beef
For Immediate Release: March 24, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In the wake of reports that beef cases in grocery stores are empty in some areas of the country, R-CALF USA has launched a new Website to connect consumers with their neighboring…
Ranch Group to U.S. Senate: We Don’t Want a Bail-out, We Want Our Industry Back
For Immediate Release: March 23, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a short message sent today to every U.S. Senate office, R-CALF USA emphatically stated: “Congress should not pass any cattle industry bail-out unless it is accompanied by REAL market structure reforms…
R-CALF USA to Trump: Crisis Requires Stopgap, Permanent Measures to Avert Industry Collapse
For Immediate Release: March 18, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today, R-CALF USA sent President Trump an emergency letter describing the catastrophic crisis that consumers and America’s cattle farmers and ranchers are continuing to face and urging five emergency stopgap measures and…
Ranch Group to Alabama Cattlemen: Cattle Industry’s Market Failure Is by Design
For Immediate Release: March 16, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Speaking Friday in Falkville, Alabama, to area cattle producers, R-CALF USA director for the region and past R-CALF USA president George Chambers, and the group’s CEO, Bill Bullard, provided an update on…
Ranch Group to Calif. Cattlemen: Perdue’s Voluntary COOL Proposal Is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
For Immediate Release: March 9, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Speaking in Red Bluff, California, to a group of 75 northern California cattle producers on Saturday, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said the voluntary country-of-origin labeling (COOL) policy being floated by U.S….
Did You Send Your Letters to Trump & Congress Yet? Letters Asking For New M-COOL Legislation Now!
To: R-CALF USA Members, Affiliates and Fellow Americans From: CEO Bill Bullard Date: March 5, 2020 Immediate Action: We need everyone – all our members and all your friends – to send a written letter similar to the one below to President Trump and to each of your two Senators…
Ranchers: “We Are In a Crisis But No One Is Listening” – In Wake of Impending Brazilian Beef Imports, Group Delivers Solution to Congress
For Immediate Release: March 3, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In response to the late February announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will open the U.S. market to fresh beef from Brazil – a country with a history…
Ranch Group Goes Back to Court with New Information on USDA’s RFID Mandate
For Immediate Release: March 2, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – On Friday, Harriet Hageman, Senior Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a new motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and…