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99 Percent of Members Vote to Adopt New Marketing Policy Billings, Mont. (May 20, 2008) – Ninety-nine percent of voting R-CALF USA members – through utilization of a mail-in ballot – approved a new resolution brought forth from the group’s marketing committee, which becomes organizational policy immediately. The new policy states: “WHEREAS, open and competitive markets are extremely important to the prosperity and survival of independent cattle producers; WHEREAS formula pricing contracts effectively deny independent producers access to open and competitive markets; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that R-CALF USA adopt policy and aggressively pursue legislation that allows formula pricing contracts for slaughter cattle that only have a base price on the contract at the time of signing the contract. These contracts shall be available to any independent cattle producer.” R-CALF USA Vice President/Region II Director Randy Stevenson noted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has a significant statement posted at: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/overview.html: “Competition provides businesses the opportunity to compete on price and quality, in an open market and on a level playing field, unhampered by anticompetitive restraints.” “Captive supply arrangements create market circumstances that are neither open, nor level, nor competitive,” said Stevenson, who also co-chairs the group’s marketing committee. # # # R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle industry. R-CALF USA represents thousands of U.S. cattle producers on trade and marketing issues. Members are located across 47 states and are primarily cow/calf operators, cattle backgrounders, and/or feedlot owners. R-CALF USA has dozens of affiliate organizations and various main-street businesses are associate members. For more information, visit www.r-calfusa.com or, call 406-252-2516. |
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