R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America “Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer” For Immediate Release May 2, 2024 R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com View and share this week’s update on Facebook here Twitter here or view the web version here. Commentary by Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA At the behest of…
April 29, 2024 Go inside the rigged game of Big Beef and discover many differences between the giant Beef Industry and the local community-based storefront. This video is about Mike Callicrate’s story of deception and bribery as well as his will to build a community-based food system that actually benefits the places where we live.
Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? Mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated, unfair, and even dangerous. By Eric Schlosser Millennium Images / Gallery Stock April 9, 2024 The Federal Trade Commission has just released its long-anticipated report on the major disruptions to America’s grocery-supply chain during the coronavirus…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release April 10, 2024 R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this week’s update on Facebook here Twitter here or view the web version here. Please find below R-CALF USA’s weekly opinion/commentary that discusses what is…
Hey, it’s Austin. I got a response from one of the barons. Jeff and Deb Hansen – my Hog Barons – just wrote an editorial in the Des Moines Register in response to my book. Believe it or not, they argued that the excessive amounts of hog manure produced by their industrial facilities has “societal…
March 28,2024 Gilles Stockton, Montana Rancher Cattlemen suspect that the mandate for electronic tags (EID) on cattle moving interstate is not really about veterinary surveillance even though the rule comes out of APHIS, the veterinary division of USDA. The USDA announcement talks about the need to rapidly traceback the movement of cows with disease, yet…
Standing Up for Kentucky’s Family-Owned Meat and Poultry Processors Commissioner Shell, Attorney General Coleman condemn policy, legality of EPA proposal PUBLISHED ON March 26, 2024 Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell and Attorney General Russell Coleman are opposing a new Biden Administration proposal that targets Kentucky’s meat and poultry processing industry. (Kyle Mackie, Unsplash) FRANKFORT, Ky. —…
OPINION: Cattle ranchers being seared by meatpacking industry in beef checkoff program By Cash Carruth / Bloomfield resident Mar 25, 2024 Updated 2 hrs ago A pen of Hereford heifers on a ranch near Stanley in May 2020. Some cattle ranchers are raising dust over the federal government’s dollar-per-head beef checkoff system, which they say…