Posted: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:30 AM Rancher vows to continue checkoff lawsuit By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press A rancher vows to continue his legal challenge against the national Beef Checkoff even though his original attorneys have decided to exit the court battle. "We fully intend to pursue the case," said Michael Callicrate, a Colorado…
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A FOOD CHAIN RADIO RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM A few decades ago, we lived with the animals we ate; today, the animals we live with are pets, and the animals we eat live in giant factories thousands of miles away. This leads us to ask… Can we bring our food animals back home? This Saturday at…
Robert Krulwich On Science Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee by Robert Krulwich November 30, 2012 8:09 AM Nikola Nikolovski/iStockphoto We’ll start in a cornfield — we’ll call it an Iowa cornfield in late summer — on a beautiful day. The corn is high. The air is shimmering. There’s just one thing…
Checkoff lawsuit founders By Lisa M. Keefe on 1/4/2013 The lawsuit filed last August charging that beef checkoff funds are being “misused” is foundering in federal court, as the judge has granted the plantiff’s lawyers’ request to withdraw from the case. The suit was filed by a free-market advocacy organization called the Organization for Competitive…
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Can the Secretary not see the forest for the trees? He should read the following: “We were putting parameters on the term ‘unfair.’ Part of it deals with bad faith. Bad faith actions are unfair. Fraud is unfair. Denial of due process is unfair. If you support that rider, you’re against the farmer,” Butler said….
Main Navigation: Vilsack says Rural America needs a new mindset US Secretary of Agriculture garnered a lot of media attention on December 6 when he asked the attendees at the 2012 Farm Journal Forum, “Why is it that we don’t have a Farm Bill?” He went on to say, “It isn’t just the differences of…
Bulled over, reform-minded Montana cattle ranchers not hopeful about rule changes Ressa Charter feeds cattle LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff Ressa Charter feeds cattle on the Charter family ranch north of Billings. 2013-01-02T10:15:00Z 2013-01-02T10:15:18Z Bulled over, reform-minded Montana cattle ranchers not hopeful about rule changesBy TOM LUTEY/Billings Gazette missoulian.com By TOM LUTEY/Billings Gazette Ranchers like Ressa Charter,…