Ranch Group Responds to Ag Secretary’s Interest in COOL
For Immediate Release: February 25, 2021 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Ranch Group Responds to Ag Secretary’s Interest in COOL Billings, Mont. – In a […]
University of Tennessee’s Ag Policy Analysis Center Urges Return of COOL
For Immediate Release: November 4, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a recently published “Policy Pennings Column” by Dr. Harwood Schaffer […]
R-CALF USA Plows into a Foreboding 2020; A Sweet Look Back on a Successful Fall Calf Sale Run!
For Immediate Release: June 12, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – As cattle ranchers reel from the reality of flat and failing […]
Ranch Group Disappointed with Yet a Second COOL Resolution but No Mandatory COOL Bill
For Immediate Release: May 13, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today, U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced […]
Ranch Group Urges President and Congress to Determine if Packing Industry Should Be Decentralized
In a letter delivered today to President Trump and House and Senate congressional leaders, R-CALF USA states the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the United States’ beef supply chain lacks resiliency and redundancy and urges a review to consider whether a physical and geographical restructuring of the meatpacking industry is required to disaggregate and decentralize beef processing capacity.
Ranch Group’s Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling Petition Gains 250K Signatures in 7 Days
For Immediate Release: April 29, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Launched Thursday morning by R-CALF USA and several of its rancher-members, the […]
Beef, Pork & Dairy Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling Petition Gets 26K Signatures First 30 Hours
For Immediate Release: April 24, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Yesterday, R-CALF USA along with some of its members launched a petition […]
Why Is There an Effort to Undercut R-CALF USA Members’ Critical Market Reform Plan?
To: R-CALF USA Members and Affiliates From: CEO Bill Bullard Date: April 17, 2020 ***REVISED*** Summary: On behalf of its members, In January 2020 R-CALF USA introduced a comprehensive market […]
Ranch Group Cautions that Voluntary Labeling Dilutes Efforts to Fully Restore Mandatory COOL for Beef
For Immediate Release: Oct. 29, 2019 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In their 2017 country-of-origin labeling (COOL) lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department […]