R-CALF USA Statement on Renewed Beef Access to China Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement following the Financial Times report that President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping reached an agreement over the weekend to allow U.S. beef into China. "While we welcome the news that China intends…
Deja-vu for Checkoff Legislation: If at first you don’t succeed… Traci Eatherton for Tri-State Livestock News In late March, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced new legislation, hoping to add what they call "much needed transparency and accountability" to checkoff programs. Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act of 2017 (OFF Act), along…
Did someone forward you this newsletter? Get your own copy by subscribing here. Meat Giant JBS Continues to Grow in US Despite Contamination Scandal in Brazil Health authorities in Europe, China, and Brazil have all pulled beef from the Brazilian meat giant JBS off of grocery store shelves, in response to evidence that the company…
Denver, Colo. – Yesterday, the Democratic leadership of the Colorado General Assembly’s House Agriculture, Livestock & Natural Resources Committee, Chair Jeni James Arndt and Vice-chair Diane Mitsch Bush, led the defeat of a measure that would have informed Colorado consumers of the origins of beef they purchase for themselves and their families. In a 7…
Group questions Beef Checkoff spending OCM moves forward in Freedom of Information Case PUBLISHED ON APRIL 4TH, 2017 The lawsuit is part of OCM’s four-year battle on behalf of cattle producers to force the USDA to release government audit documents and financial records showing how cattle producers’ beef checkoff funds are being spent. (Annerley Johnson…
By Jason Huffman | 04/04/2017 10:00 AM EDT With help from Helena Bottemiller Evich, Anthony Adragna, Jenny Hopkinson and Catherine Boudreau FORMER GIPSA CHIEF: RULES ARE ‘BAND AID ON A GAPING WOUND’: J. Dudley Butler, former head of USDA’s Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration, applauds efforts by the agency to better protect livestock growers…
US Senate leaders reintroduce commodity checkoff reform legislation · Apr 3, 2017 Federal lawmakers reintroduced legislation to bring transparency and accountability to the federal government’s commodity checkoff programs. The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act, S. 741, was introduced by Sens. Mike Lee, R-UT, and Cory Booker, D-NJ, while Reps. Dave Brat, R-VA, and Dina…
April 3, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCM Moves Forward in Freedom of Information Case despite USDA’s Attempt to Conceal NCBA’s Abuses of Beef Checkoff Funds LINCOLN, NE – March 31, 2017 was the USDA’s court-ordered deadline to choose transparency or secrecy in a lawsuit over records from an audit initiated in 2011 of the federal…
March 28, 2017 Josh Payne Let’s talk farming and faith. I drive John Deere tractors. I grow 200 bushel per acre corn. I use GPS and advanced biological and chemical technologies to feed the world. I am a Christian farmer. Be honest. How many of you heard this as the subtext: I grow GMO corn…