2007 R-CALF USA COOL Fact Sheet (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 74K)

COOL as written in the 2002 Farm Bill

R-CALF USA Comments and Testimony

Federal and State Congressional Action

Studies

Coalition Letter asking USTR to Defend COOL March 13, 2009 (PDF 130K)

USTR Feb 17, 2009 Federal Register Notice posted March 13, 2009 (PDF 48K)

USDA's letter to the Industry February 20, 2009 (PDF 27K)

COOL Letter from Senators Byron Dorgan, Russell Feingold, Kent Conrad, Amy Klobuchar, Ron Wyden, Jon Tester and Dianne Feinstein to Secretary Vilsack February 3, 2009 (PDF 165K)

COOL Letter from Senators Tim Johnson and Mike Enzi to Secretary Vilsack January 22, 2009 (PDF 184K)

Final COOL Rule, 2009-00600_PI January 12, 2009 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 357 K)

Tyson's Letter to Cattle Producers regarding COOL October 14, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 48K)

Producer Compliance with COOL October 3, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 25K)

R-CALF USA's Supplemental Comments on Interim Final Rule of COOL September 27, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat PDF 75 K)

R-CALF USA's Comments on Interim Final Rule for COOL September 25, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat PDF 85 K)
            Attachment A - R-CALF USA COOL Comments (Adobe PDF 1804 K)

COOL Senate letter to the Honorable Ed Schafer September 25, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat PDF 1010 K)

Easterday Ranches, Inc. Lawsuit Against USDA Regarding COOL September 22, 2008 (Adobe PDF 86K)

Senator Tester's Letter to the USDA regarding COOL Concerns September 9, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 42K)

Letter to Under Secretary Bruce Knight September 4, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 18 K)

Final Affidavit Language September 3, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 18K)

USDA-AMS Clarification on Livestock Producer Compliance with the COOL Interim Final Rule August 7, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF 82K)

Letter to the Office of Management and Budget from R-CALF USA, National Farmers Union (NFU), Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and Food & Water Watch (FWW) July 22, 2008 (Adobe Acrobat Reader 34 K)

Letter to Senator Harkin from 31 Senators regarding COOL Language September 25, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader 876 K)

R-CALF USA Comments Regarding Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling for Beef, Lamb, Pork, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, and Peanuts August 20, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 121K)

R-CALF USA's letter to House Agriculture Committee Members July 17, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 107K)

AMI's Anti-COOL Ad in Roll Call June 21, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 424K)

AMI's letter to Beef Producers June 21, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 17K)

AMI's letter to Pork Producers June 21, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 18K)

R-CALF USA's 2nd letter To AMI June 18, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 94K)

AMI response to R-CALF USA June 15, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 64K)

R-CALF USA response to AMI June 13, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 98K)

Letter from AMI to R-CALF USA regarding COOL June 13, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 52K)

R-CALF USA's Second COOL Letter to Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Herb Kohl and response to AMI June 7, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 100K)

AMI's Second COOL Letter to Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Herb Kohl June 5, 2007 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 104K)

Separating Fiction from Truth: How the Voluntary COOL Bill will Impact the U.S. Cattle Industry  September 10, 2004 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 57K)

Coalition letter encourages Congress to support "The Sense of the Senate" October 9, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 57K)

Blueprint for Maximizing the Benefits of Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling While Minimizing Costs to Producers and Unnecessary Government and Industry Regulation  September 5, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 153K)

Cattle Industry COOL Summit I & II

USDA COOL Listening Session in Sacramento, California - Statement by R-CALF USA, Presented by Bill Bullard, C.E.O.  June 12, 2003

Letter to USDHS, USDT, USDHHS, and USDA Requesting Removal of Livestock from "J-List"  May 23, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 116K)

USDA COOL Listening Session Comments by Jay Miller in Raleigh, NC  March 20, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 42K)

COOL Talking Points  April 17, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 79K)

View speeches from the April 10th COOL meeting in Springfield, MO with presentations by William Sessions of USDA-AMS, Bill Bullard of R-CALF USA, Patty Lovera of Public Citizen, and Food Marketing Institute  April 10, 2003 (Video requires Windows Media 7.1 or higher)

Americans for Country of Origin Labeling Joint Comments  April 9, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 147K)

Senators' Comments on COOL  April 9, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 88K)

R-CALF USA Comments on AMS on COOL  April 9, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 166K)

Addendum to R-CALF USA's Complaint to Donna Reifschneider  March 20, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 603K)

Producer Expectations for COOL by Jay Miller, R-CALF USA Marketing Committee Chair  March 20, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 272K)

R-CALF USA Files Complaint with Donna Reifschneider  March 5, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 102K)

R-CALF USA's Comments to AMS on COOL  February 21, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 192K)

COOL:  Myths and Facts  February 5, 2003

Comments of R-CALF USA on the Issuance of Guidelines for Voluntary COOL  August 9, 2002

What You Can Do to Help Pass COOL  March 13, 2002

Americans for COOL Joint Letter  March 6, 2002

Cattle Associations in 27 States Sign Joint Letter in Support of COOL in Senate Farm Bill  December 2, 2001

R-CALF USA Submits Comments to FSIS Defining Labeling of U.S. Cattle and U.S. Fresh Beef Products  September 26, 2001

Congressional Action

FY 2005 House Ag Appropriations M-COOL Delay Vote June 8, 2005

California COOL February 2, 2005

Louisiana COOL 1999

Maine COOL 1999

Mississippi COOL 2002

Missouri COOL August 28, 2004

Montana COOL 2005

North Dakota COOL January 5, 1999

South Dakota COOL 1977

H.R. 384 January 26, 2005

S. 108 January 24, 2005

S. 135 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to expand country of origin labeling for certain covered commodities, and for other purposes.  January 24, 2005

H.R. 4576 Goodlatte-Stenholm Voluntary COOL July 23, 2004

"Sense of the Senate" Voting Record, S.Amdt. 2078 to H.R. 2673 (Agriculture Appropriations FY 2004)  November 6, 2003

Rehberg-Hooley Voting Record, AMDT.226 to H.R.2673  July 14, 2003

COOL as written in the 2002 Farm Bill

Studies

Country of Origin Labeling:  Opportunities for USDA and Industry to Implement Challenging Aspects of the New Law  United States General Accounting Office, August 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 4215K)

"Country of Origin Labeling: A Legal and Economic Analysis," J. VanSickle, R. McEowen, N. Harl, R. Taylor and J. Connor  May 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 226K)

"County of Origin Labeling of Beef Products: U.S. Consumers' Perceptions," a survey and study by Colorado State University  March 20-21, 2003 (Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF File 29K)

"Food from Our Changing World: The Globalization of Food and How Americans Feel About It"  February 24, 2003