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R-CALF USA In the News R-CALF USA in the News - Click here for independent newspaper, magazine, and radio coverage of R-CALF USA's activities across the nation. Also available is the Weekly Roundup with R-CALF USA. R-CALF USA News Releases and Statements *Media: For comments, interviews, and further information, please contact our Communications Coordinator Shae Dodson at 406-672-8969 or sdodson@r-calfusa.com.
Billings, Mont. (August 18, 2008) – On Aug. 15, 2008, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced the detection of yet another case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a 6-year-old Alberta beef cow, the third case of the disease in Canada in 2008 alone and the country’s 15th native case.
Billings, Mont. (August 11, 2008) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued some livestock producer clarifications regarding the use of affidavits in the implementation of the agency’s new Interim Final Rule on country-of-origin labeling (COOL).
Billings, Mont. (August 6, 2008) – Monday, R-CALF USA provided to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) comments regarding the USAF’s plan to triple the size of the Power River Training Complex (PRTC). Thirty counties in southeastern Montana, southwestern North Dakota, northwestern South Dakota, and northeastern Wyoming would be impacted by the planned expansion. Washington, D.C. (August 5, 2008) – On Friday, in its sixth formal submission to the U.S. Department of Justice, R-CALF USA furnished an eight-page letter and 14 separate exhibits that provide additional evidence to show that harm will befall independent U.S. cattle producers and cattle feeders if Brazilian-owned JBS is allowed to purchase National Beef Packing Co., Smithfield Beef Group and Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding, the largest feedlot corporation in the United States. Evidence to that effect also was provided to the Justice Department in formal submissions on April 9, April 24, May 8, May 20 and May 28. Billings, Mont. (August 1, 2008) – Well over 100 cattle producers and concerned citizens attended a meeting this week in Miles City, Mont., to learn about the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF’s) plan to triple the size of the Powder River Training Complex (PRTC). R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard participated in the meeting and encouraged producers to exercise their right to influence the USAF’s plans. R-CALF USA Member Pat Goggins, who owns several large ranches in the PRTC area, as well as the Public Auction Yards in Billings and Billings Livestock Commission, organized the meeting.
Billings, Mont. (July 29, 2008) – R-CALF USA was pleased to see in the new Interim Final Rule for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), that, at a glance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) presented, for the most part, a simplified and workable rule for independent U.S. cattle producers. Billings, Mont. (July 25, 2008) – Yesterday, a federal judge in Washington state issued a permanent injunction that halts immediately any further haying or grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land that, in May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had made available under a Critical Feed Use (CFU) program designed to help cattle producers access supplemental forage in the wake of drought and other natural disasters, as well as escalating feed costs. Washington, D.C. (July 23, 2008) – In formal correspondence sent today to the leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, two national groups and nine others – all from different states – requested that Congress immediately halt any further advancement of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and to conduct an oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) NAIS activities to carefully and deliberately investigate the full ramifications of USDA’s NAIS-related actions and proposals.
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Ask OMB to Keep Spirit, Intent Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2008) – This morning, a joint letter from R-CALF USA, the National Farmers Union (NFU), the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Food & Water Watch (FWW) was hand-delivered to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to request that while OMB is reviewing new implementing regulations for country-of-origin labeling (COOL), that it “fully incorporate both the spirit and intent of Congress’ new amendments.” Billings, Mont. (July 21, 2008) – Cattle producers from areas of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming are invited to attend an informational meeting at 7 p.m. MDT on Monday, July 28, at 20 N. 8th St., in Miles City, Mont., concerning plans by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to expand the Powder River Training Complex (PRTC).
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