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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.
January 6, 2009 Jefferson City, Mo. – R-CALF USA President/Region VI Director Max Thornsberry, a veterinarian from Richland, Mo., spent part of Monday providing testimony to the Missouri Legislature’s Committee on Emerging Agricultural Issues that focused on animal health, the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), country-of-origin labeling (COOL), Beef Checkoff reform, international trade agreements, market concentration and private property rights.
January 6, 2009 Rapid City, S.D. – R-CALF USA will hold its 10th annual convention here Jan. 23-24 at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel, located at I-90 and Lacrosse St., Exit 59. December 29, 2008 Billings, Mont. / Lincoln, Neb. – R-CALF USA and the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) are spending the holiday season fighting to preserve competition in the U.S. cattle market.
December 29, 2008 Billings, Mont. – Just over a month after R-CALF USA sent a formal letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Veterinary Services (APHIS-VS) demanding that the agency retract Memorandum No. 575.19 issued on Sept. 22, 2008, APHIS-VS officially canceled that particular memo on Dec. 22, 2008.
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Bill Bullard Receives President’s Award December 19, 2008 Lincoln, Neb. – At it recent annual convention, the Nebraska Farmers Union (NEFU) presented R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard with the organization’s highest honor, the President’s Award, for service to family farm agriculture. Cattle Producers Pleased with Obama’s Picks for Agriculture, Interior Secretaries December 17, 2008 Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA is pleased with President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to be the nominee for Secretary of Agriculture and equally pleased with the appointment of Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., as the nominee to head the U.S. Department of Interior. Under What Authority Can USDA Impose Premises Registration? December 15, 2008 Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA got word today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has received a formal letter from the group that requests the agency to promptly answer several questions regarding R-CALF USA’s position that USDA has no authority to impose premises registration – utilizing the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) – onto livestock producers who participate in federal disease management programs. OIG Again Slams USDA for BSE Mitigation Failures at Packing Plants December 12, 2008 Billings, Mont. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Tuesday issued a report about USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) that points out serious and continued flaws in FSIS’ ability to mitigate the risks of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in several large facilities across the country that slaughter older cows. December 10, 2008 Billings, Mont. – The R-CALF USA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the group’s 10th annual convention and trade show will take place Jan. 23-24, 2009, at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel, located at I-90 and Lacrosse St., Exit 59, in Rapid City, S.D.
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Producers’ Needs, Interests Represented December 10, 2008 Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA was one of about 25 agricultural organizations invited to participate in a meeting here Monday in which the goal was to recommend to the Agriculture Secretary-designee reforms to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) once President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January 2009. Op-Ed
Beef Packers All But
Stealing U.S. Cattle; December 2, 2008 This 615-word piece is authored by R-CALF USA Region V (Texas) Director Stayton Weldon, who runs a herd of Hereford cows, breeds them to Brahman bulls and raises the F-1 Braford heifer, which is very adaptable to the climate where he ranches.
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