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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Yet Again, Canada Tries to File WTO Complaint Against U.S. COOL Law The Canadian government is seeking a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement process over the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. A WTO panel is scheduled to hear the request at the Oct. 23, 2009, meeting of WTO's Dispute Settlement Body.
Saturday, October 10, 2009Yet Again, Canada Tries to File WTO Complaint Against U.S. COOL Law The Canadian government is seeking a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement process over the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. A WTO panel is scheduled to hear the request at the Oct. 23, 2009, meeting of WTO's Dispute Settlement Body.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Group Brings Vilsack 8-Point Alternative to NAIS In formal correspondence sent to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today, R-CALF USA has recommended an 8-point alternative course to the controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS), originally forced on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by the previous Administration.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009Group Brings Vilsack 8-Point Alternative to NAIS In formal correspondence sent to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today, R-CALF USA has recommended an 8-point alternative course to the controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS), originally forced on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by the previous Administration.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Group Calls Justice Department's Refusal to Block JBS Mega-Merger A Broken Presidential Promise In our opinion, the Justice Department's action in refusing to fully investigate the antitrust implications of the unprecedented merger between JBS and Pilgrim's Pride ... when these firms both control and market substitutable, competing proteins, is an irrepressible defiance of President Obama's promise to ensure competitive markets for the nation's farmers and ranchers,
Tuesday, October 20, 2009Group Calls Justice Department's Refusal to Block JBS Mega-Merger A Broken Presidential Promise In our opinion, the Justice Department's action in refusing to fully investigate the antitrust implications of the unprecedented merger between JBS and Pilgrim's Pride ... when these firms both control and market substitutable, competing proteins, is an irrepressible defiance of President Obama's promise to ensure competitive markets for the nation's farmers and ranchers,
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Group Praises New FSIS Notice That Requires Inspectors To Know Source Suppliers Before Positive E. coli Test Results "Finally, after a battle for more than eight years, FSIS is requiring documentation of source information at the time of evidence gathering," said John Munsell, R-CALF USA HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) Committee Chair.
Saturday, October 16, 2010Group Praises New FSIS Notice That Requires Inspectors To Know Source Suppliers Before Positive E. coli Test Results "Finally, after a battle for more than eight years, FSIS is requiring documentation of source information at the time of evidence gathering," said John Munsell, R-CALF USA HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) Committee Chair.
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Is It Because They Have the Truth to Hide? NCBA, AMI, NMA Decline Opportunity for Public Debate Last month, KSDZ radio in Gordon, Neb., invited these four groups to participate in an open, public debate in light of the new competition rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) that would establish measures to benefit cattle farmers and ranchers and make the U.S. cattle market more transparent and competitive.
Thursday, August 12, 2010Is It Because They Have the Truth to Hide? NCBA, AMI, NMA Decline Opportunity for Public Debate Last month, KSDZ radio in Gordon, Neb., invited these four groups to participate in an open, public debate in light of the new competition rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) that would establish measures to benefit cattle farmers and ranchers and make the U.S. cattle market more transparent and competitive.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Group Calls Message to Congress by NCBA, AFBF, and W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., Unscientific, Irresponsible, and Deceptive R-CALF USA today letter to members on the Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Committee urging them to disregard the deceptive plea jointly made by a group that includes the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), and W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., whom are seeking to introduce the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus on the U.S. mainland for research purposes.
Monday, September 21, 2009Group Calls Message to Congress by NCBA, AFBF, and W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., Unscientific, Irresponsible, and Deceptive R-CALF USA today letter to members on the Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Committee urging them to disregard the deceptive plea jointly made by a group that includes the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), and W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., whom are seeking to introduce the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus on the U.S. mainland for research purposes.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Cattle Producers, Farm Advocates Laud Senate Support of USDA's Proposed Livestock Competition Rule The Senators' "Dear Colleague' letter to USDA comes on the heels of increasingly vehement opposition to the proposed rule by the meatpacking and processing companies. The proposed rule would restore necessary balance between cattle and hog producers and the packers that buy their livestock, and would also prohibit some of the most egregious practices that are now common in the contract poultry industry.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010Cattle Producers, Farm Advocates Laud Senate Support of USDA's Proposed Livestock Competition Rule The Senators' "Dear Colleague' letter to USDA comes on the heels of increasingly vehement opposition to the proposed rule by the meatpacking and processing companies. The proposed rule would restore necessary balance between cattle and hog producers and the packers that buy their livestock, and would also prohibit some of the most egregious practices that are now common in the contract poultry industry.
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Canada, Mexico Have No Standing to Bring Complaint Against U.S. COOL Law R-CALF USA has filed formal comments with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to emphasize that the group believes it is fundamentally contrary to the U.S. Constitution for USTR to agree that foreign governments – specifically Canada and Mexico – have any standing whatsoever to bring a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against our constitutionally passed mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law.
Saturday, July 4, 2009Canada, Mexico Have No Standing to Bring Complaint Against U.S. COOL Law R-CALF USA has filed formal comments with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to emphasize that the group believes it is fundamentally contrary to the U.S. Constitution for USTR to agree that foreign governments – specifically Canada and Mexico – have any standing whatsoever to bring a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against our constitutionally passed mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Ranchers, Manufacturers, Organized Labor Push Congress to Develop National Trade Strategy Visits to approximately 80 congressional offices were made last week when ranchers teamed up with U.S. manufacturers and organized labor groups to tell Congress that current U.S. trade policy has failed America, and it is past time for the U.S. to do what every other major trading nation has already done -" implement a national trade strategy that promotes domestic productivity and economic growth.
Saturday, March 13, 2010Ranchers, Manufacturers, Organized Labor Push Congress to Develop National Trade Strategy Visits to approximately 80 congressional offices were made last week when ranchers teamed up with U.S. manufacturers and organized labor groups to tell Congress that current U.S. trade policy has failed America, and it is past time for the U.S. to do what every other major trading nation has already done -" implement a national trade strategy that promotes domestic productivity and economic growth.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Group Submits Supplemental Comments On May 15, 2009, Canada detected its 17th case of BSE, which is its 10th case born after the OTM Rule's import eligibility date, meaning that these 10 infected animals could have been imported into the U.S. prior to exhibiting symptoms of BSE. In response to this latest Canadian BSE case, R-CALF USA submitted its second set of supplemental comments to USDA last week to demonstrate that the key assumptions made by USDA...
Friday, June 12, 2009Group Submits Supplemental Comments On May 15, 2009, Canada detected its 17th case of BSE, which is its 10th case born after the OTM Rule's import eligibility date, meaning that these 10 infected animals could have been imported into the U.S. prior to exhibiting symptoms of BSE. In response to this latest Canadian BSE case, R-CALF USA submitted its second set of supplemental comments to USDA last week to demonstrate that the key assumptions made by USDA...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Schumacher Loses Over $260,000 from Cattle Sales to Tyson; Now Tyson Wants Schumacher's Home Herreid, S.D., rancher and cattle feeder Herman Schumacher has suffered losses exceeding $260,000 from the sale of three pens of cattle (984 head) sold to Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. (Tyson) since January 1, 2009, yet Schumacher's three pens of cattle were top performers. "The only conclusion to be reached is that the cattle market is being manipulated by the dominant meatpackers.
Thursday, July 9, 2009Schumacher Loses Over $260,000 from Cattle Sales to Tyson; Now Tyson Wants Schumacher's Home Herreid, S.D., rancher and cattle feeder Herman Schumacher has suffered losses exceeding $260,000 from the sale of three pens of cattle (984 head) sold to Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. (Tyson) since January 1, 2009, yet Schumacher's three pens of cattle were top performers. "The only conclusion to be reached is that the cattle market is being manipulated by the dominant meatpackers.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Yet Again, Group Urges USDA to Withdraw NAIS Plans In formal comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Aug. 3, 2009, R-CALF USA yet again pointed out the errors of the agency's ways if it continues to force upon independent U.S. cattle producers its National Animal Identification System (NAIS): an onerous burden of untold financial implications and an unconstitutional violation of every citizen's private property rights and liberty.
Friday, August 14, 2009Yet Again, Group Urges USDA to Withdraw NAIS Plans In formal comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Aug. 3, 2009, R-CALF USA yet again pointed out the errors of the agency's ways if it continues to force upon independent U.S. cattle producers its National Animal Identification System (NAIS): an onerous burden of untold financial implications and an unconstitutional violation of every citizen's private property rights and liberty.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Tyson Rejects Group's Appeal for Moral Decency; "Only in the ivory tower boardroom of a multibillion dollar company, where corporate executives are completely disconnected from cattle producers and food consumers, could a strategy like this be concocted," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. "To reverse its tarnished image...Tyson has now decided to use money extracted from Schumacher to help feed other farmers/ranchers who are facing economic disaster largely because of Tyson
Tuesday, June 30, 2009Tyson Rejects Group's Appeal for Moral Decency; "Only in the ivory tower boardroom of a multibillion dollar company, where corporate executives are completely disconnected from cattle producers and food consumers, could a strategy like this be concocted," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. "To reverse its tarnished image...Tyson has now decided to use money extracted from Schumacher to help feed other farmers/ranchers who are facing economic disaster largely because of Tyson
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
GIPSA Complaint Against Brazilian-Owned JBS Demonstrates Need for GIPSA Competition Rule "If the allegation proves correct, and if each of the 16 lots of hogs was separately owned by 16 independent hog producers, then the loss alleged in the complaint represents an average loss per hog producer of $21,875," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. "For a family sized hog operation, this amount of loss could well mean the end of their ability to stay in business."
Thursday, October 21, 2010GIPSA Complaint Against Brazilian-Owned JBS Demonstrates Need for GIPSA Competition Rule "If the allegation proves correct, and if each of the 16 lots of hogs was separately owned by 16 independent hog producers, then the loss alleged in the complaint represents an average loss per hog producer of $21,875," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. "For a family sized hog operation, this amount of loss could well mean the end of their ability to stay in business."
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Group Demonstrates AMI's Attack on COOL Not Factual "AMI has been fighting for nearly a decade against the public's right to know where their food is produced, but what AMI really is fighting over is control over the cattle and beef markets," Bullard pointed out. "Prior to COOL, meatpackers could source cattle anywhere they could obtain them cheaper.
Thursday, January 14, 2010Group Demonstrates AMI's Attack on COOL Not Factual "AMI has been fighting for nearly a decade against the public's right to know where their food is produced, but what AMI really is fighting over is control over the cattle and beef markets," Bullard pointed out. "Prior to COOL, meatpackers could source cattle anywhere they could obtain them cheaper.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
NCBA/AMI/NPPC Requests to Extend Comment Period on Proposed GIPSA Rule are Baseless "As far back as at least 2001 for example, both NCBA and the NPPC formally voiced their objections to granting USDA new authority to "regulate corporate relationships, commercial practices and contracts for the production of agricultural commodities,' and, at the same time, they also have objected to any new laws that would address competition-related issues," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard.
Friday, July 16, 2010NCBA/AMI/NPPC Requests to Extend Comment Period on Proposed GIPSA Rule are Baseless "As far back as at least 2001 for example, both NCBA and the NPPC formally voiced their objections to granting USDA new authority to "regulate corporate relationships, commercial practices and contracts for the production of agricultural commodities,' and, at the same time, they also have objected to any new laws that would address competition-related issues," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
USDA Partners with Private Company to Help Sell Ear Tags to U.S. Farmers and Ranchers The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has partnered with Allflex, a private multinational firm that manufactures and sells ear tags in more than seven countries, to help Allflex market, promote and sell ear tags to U.S. cattle producers.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009USDA Partners with Private Company to Help Sell Ear Tags to U.S. Farmers and Ranchers The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has partnered with Allflex, a private multinational firm that manufactures and sells ear tags in more than seven countries, to help Allflex market, promote and sell ear tags to U.S. cattle producers.
