Archive for Agriculture
R-CALF USA to USTR: Stop Catering to Big Agribusiness; Meeting Requested
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Yesterday, R-CALF USA sent a letter to U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert Lighthizer stating that while the group fully supports the Trump Administration’s goals to put America first by buying and hiring American, ending unfair competition,…
Trump Administration Misses Huge Opportunity to Strengthen America’s Cattle Industry in New U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following initial statement regarding President Trump’s announcement that he has renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and achieved a new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. “We…
Opinion-Editorial by R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard
Below please find an op-ed by R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. It is a rebuttal to the multitude of editorials and op-eds recently published to discredit R-CALF USA and to deflect attention away from the substantial challenges faced by independent U.S. cattle producers. R-CALF USA Seeks a Higher Class…
Group Asks CFTC to Investigate Packer Trades on Specific Dates That Led to Record Packer Margins
Billings, Mont. – On Monday, R-CALF USA asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to investigate packer trading activities on specific dates spanning the past six years. The group states it identified numerous anomalies in the cattle futures market and suspects packers were making trades in the futures market to drive…
U.S. Ranchers Raise Over 50K to Label Their Beef “Product of USA” Again
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA COOL Committee Chair Mike Schultz Phone: 785-462-1447; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA’s nationwide “Label Our Beef” campaign to bring back the mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law for beef has raised over $50,000. “COOL’s ability to raise funds so quickly will speak volumes on Capitol…
Group Files Reply in Beef Checkoff Case
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today R-CALF USA, through its attorneys, filed its reply in the federal district court in Montana to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) opposition to the group’s motion to expand the scope of their beef checkoff…
Groups Support Moratorium on Ag Mergers Bill
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA and 80 other organizations have endorsed S.3404, The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018 (the Act), introduced today in Congress by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). The Act would…
Group Responds to Latest Round of Fake News by Drovers
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – The below statement can be attributed to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard: “Drovers, through editor Greg Henderson, has now demonstrated it can print fake news with the worst of them. In his Aug. 14, 2018 opinion,…
Independent Ranchers Seek Injunction of Beef Checkoff Funds in Thirteen More States
For immediate release: Contact: David Muraskin, Public Justice – dmuraskin@publicjustice.net, (202) 861-5245; or Bill Bullard, R-CALF, r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com, (406) 252-2516 Checkoff programs in Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin would be barred from unconstitutionally collecting funds that subsidize corporate…