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R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization; we’re your organization. R-CALF USA formally requests a Senate investigation into potential antitrust and anticompetitive conduct in the U.S. cattle and beef markets. R-CALF USA is asking the Senate committee to investigate 13 specific issues including the cause for the dramatic, unprecedented collapse of U.S. cattle prices in 2015; whether the...
R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization; we’re your organization. In a recent letter to President Barack Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Froman, R-CALF USA stated the U.S. has a new and unique opportunity to persuade Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, to cease Canada’s saber rattling against the U.S. mandatory Country...
R-CALF USA submitted a white paper to the Senate agriculture committee urging it to update the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act (Act) prior to the Act’s Sept. 30, expiration. R-CALF USA asserted that packers had introduced new cattle procurement methods over the past five years that have significantly reduced price transparency. Rather than update the Act, Congress requested a mere study to determine if the Act was serving the needs of the livestock sector when it reauthorized the Act for another five years. Originally passed in 1999, t...
In the wake of a 30-state outbreak of Salmonella infections caused by tainted cucumbers imported from Mexico, the World Trade Organization (WTO) held a hearing in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide the fate of the United States’ mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) law. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said that while the U.S. food safety system failed to protect U.S. consumers from this food borne illness linked to Mexican cucumbers, U.S. consumers can nevertheless protect themselves by using mandatory COOL labels to avoid eating cucumbers f...
R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization, we’re your organization! Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL): The fight’s not over. The decision we wrote about last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals has been vacated. Now, an En Banc hearing – a hearing with all 11 judges seated at the D.C. appellate court instead of the 3 at the initial hearing – has been scheduled for mid-May. This hearing w...
R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization, we’re your organization! Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL): The fight’s not over. The decision we wrote about last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals has been vacated. Now, an En Banc hearing – a hearing with all 11 judges seated at the D.C. appellate court instead of the 3 at the initial hearing – has been scheduled for mid-May. This hearing w...
