Archive for U.S. Cattle Industry
Ranch Group’s COOL Petition Gains Nearly 34K Signatures Since Mid-October
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Less than one-month ago, R-CALF USA issued a member alert seeking help in gaining thousands of signatures on a petition addressed to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The…
Ranch Groups File Summary Judgement Brief in COOL Case
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Spokane, Wash. – Last week, co-plaintiffs R-CALF USA and the Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) filed a brief for summary judgement in their country-of-origin labeling (COOL) case in the federal…
Senators Grassley and Tester Defend America’s Farmers and Ranchers While Agriculture Secretary Perdue Defends Multinational Meatpackers
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a joint letter sent today to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Jon Tester (D-MT) told the Secretary they…
R-CALF USA Statement on Secretary Perdue’s Decision to Abandon the GIPSA Rules
Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com www.rcalfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement following Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s announcement that he is withdrawing one cattle-related GIPSA rule and refusing to take any…
Ranch Group Urges Secretary Perdue to Keep GIPSA a Stand-Alone Agency
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In strongly worded comments sent to the office of the U.S. Agriculture Secretary over the weekend, R-CALF USA urged that the U.S. Department of…
Group Responds to Latest Round of NCBA’s False Claims
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: “I don’t recall ever meeting the NCBA’s new CEO, Kendal Frazier. However, I just read his opinion piece “NCBA CEO: Unholy Alliances” published July 24, 2017…
Federal Judge Bars Involuntary Collection of Montana Beef Checkoff Tax
For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 22, 2017 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard, 406-252-2516, r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Aidan O’Shea, Public Justice, 202-861-5240, aoshea@publicjustice.net Federal Judge Bars Involuntary Collection of Montana Beef Checkoff Tax Decision affirms independent ranchers’ argument that funds benefit corporations in violation First Amendment Great Falls, Mont. – Yesterday, the…
United States Farmers File Suit to Require Country-of-Origin Labeling on Meat Products
For Immediate Release: Monday, June 19, 2017 Contact: Aidan O’Shea, Public Justice, aoshea@publicjustice.net, (202) 861-5240 Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA, r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com, (406) 252-2516 Scott Nielsen, Cattle Producers of Washington, rsnielsen@plixtel.com, (509) 675-2608 The Ranchers-Cattlemen Legal Action Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) and Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) have filed…
R-CALF USA to USTR: Make Seven Improvements to NAFTA
Billings, Mont. – In comprehensive comments submitted yesterday to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), R-CALF USA states the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) benefited transnational meatpackers at the expense of the majority of U.S. cattlemen, meaning all those who sell exclusively U.S.-born and -raised…