Multinational meat companies lobbied for the repeal of COOL and are now finding a profit bonanza by importing cheap meat. Their profits depend on U.S. consumers being kept in the dark about where their food comes from. At Callicrate Cattle Company we raise our own cattle and hogs in St. Francis, Kansas. We advocate for…

POLITICO’s Morning Agriculture News By Jenny Hopkinson | 05/02/2016 10:00 AM EDT With help from Jason Huffman, Victoria Guida, Ian Kullgren and Helena Bottemiller Evich R-CALF TO SUE USDA AGAIN OVER BEEF CHECKOFF: A group of cattle ranchers are going to court again to challenge the Agriculture Department’s oversight of the beef checkoff program, this…

Letter in the West Texas Livestock Weekly I am a week late concerning the caption on the 4-7-16 cover picture “questioning what is driving cattle prices.” Mr. Pearce certainly answered it by saying “Killing COOL on Beef” in last weeks Letter to the Editor. I think as long as we have State and National Cattle…