Archive for U.S. Cattle Industry
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…
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 Seeks Comment Period Extension in USDA’s Undue Preference Rule
For Immediate Release: February 20, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a formal letter sent today to the Packers and Stockyards Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA-AMS), R-CALF USA requests that the agency extend the comment period…
Ranchers Warned About Dismantled Competitive Infrastructures
For Immediate Release: January 15, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA spoke to hundreds of Colorado and New Mexico ranchers during meetings held in Brush and La Junta, Colo. and Las Cruces, N.M. last week and over the weekend. The Colorado…
20th Anniversary Convention Speakers on YouTube! Record Breaking Attendance, Message Reaches Over 1,200!
For Immediate Release: November 27, 2019 By: Sheila Hildebrand Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA hosted its 20th Anniversary Convention in Deadwood, SD on August 15-16, 2019. The convention proclaimed success boasting approximately 400 attendees; the organization’s largest convention in its…
Green New Deal Would Destroy American Ranchers and Dictate America’s Diet
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Opinion-Editorial by Jay Platt, Arizona Cattleman and R-CALF USA Director Below please find an op-ed by Arizona Rancher and R-CALF USA Director Jay Platt. It is a response to the misguided though heightened focus on ranching as a threat to the environment….
Stone County Missouri Farm Bureau Makes Sizable Contribution to R-CALF USA
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Photo of Stone County Farm Bureau Directors Rick Squibb (left) and David Halligan (right) presenting their donation to R-CALF USA. Billings, Mont. – Recognizing R-CALF USA’s ongoing and aggressive fight to improve economic conditions for the nation’s family farmers…
R-CALF USA to ITC: The Proposed USMCA Will Substantially Harm U.S. Cattle Producers
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 filed its final submissions to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), culminating the group’s efforts to ensure the ITC’s upcoming report to the President and Congress will accurately describe the likely impacts…