Group Responds to Beef Industry Publication Challenge Billings, Mont. – The below statement can be attributed to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard: "R-CALF USA is pleased that Drovers’ editorial director, Greg Henderson, has challenged R-CALF USA in his recent editorial, " The Front Gate: Tilting at Windmills." "The best way critical-thinking readers can learn who…

R-Calf leader to speak in Kansas January 09, 2017 11:15 am Bill Bullard, chief executive officer of R-Calf USA, will speak twice in Kansas in January, about the current cattle price collapse. Bullard will be at the LaCrosse Livestock Market, 2340 N. Highway 183, Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. CST following the cow sale,…

Trump Somehow Found Time Today to Meet With Monsanto Execs And yet he still hasn’t picked an agriculture secretary, the only open cabinet post. TOM PHILPOTTJAN. 11, 2017 7:44 PM Coast-to-coast/iStock Amid the furor surrounding allegations of covert ties with Russian intelligence figures as well as his first press conference since winning the election, President-elect…

Did someone forward you this newsletter? Get your own copy by subscribing here. The Walmart of Organics? Whole Foods Moves to Centralized Purchasing​ Whole Foods’ recent decision to centralize buying for its U.S. stores will likely make it much harder for smaller producers of organic and natural foods to get to market. The move could…

2017 Conference Announcing American Grassfed Association’s 2017 Conference Grassfed: The Way Forward February 8-9, 2017 The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture Pocantico Hills, NY Please join AGA for our 2017 conference at the iconic Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY. Since 2004, Stone Barns has been a leader…

Dornblaser on the role of government, September, 1922 Posted on January 6, 2017 by Mike Callicrate Is It Not Said “Ye Shall Know the Truth, the Truth Shall Set You Free” O.F. Dornblaser (Uncle Dorn) of Iowa discusses the problem of government from a co-operative standpoint. Government should be for all, not the few. The…

Major farm groups to Trump: Adopt GIPSA rules Alan Guebert Submitted to the Daily Sun Updated 17 hrs ago For almost a month now, we’ve watched what DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton calls “the visceral political fight” over three changes to livestock marketing rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers…

$2.6 million paid by farmers and ranchers missing from Oklahoma Beef Council By: Peggy Lowe & Joe Wertz A ranch foreman unloads a trailer of Red Angus to winter in a pasture near Alva, Okla. (Joe Wertz/StateImpact Oklahoma) A federal investigation has been launched into the alleged embezzlement of $2.6 million by an employee of…

Tue Jan 3, 2017 | 1:02pm EST Pork giant Smithfield skips middlemen in grain supply chain Some of the products of Smithfield Foods are displayed in front of at a news conference on WH Group’s IPO in Hong Kong April 14, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo By Michael Hirtzer | CHICAGO Smithfield Food Inc [SFII.UL], the…

A field of Monsanto’s Xtend soybeans. Letter from Langdon: Cheaper to Buy Than to Grow By Richard Oswald January 3, 2017 Agricultural corporations’ virtual monopoly on the farming sector means there’s little competition in the unregulated world of seed sales. So farmers either have to pay up or get out. A friend of mine is…