R-CALF: Over half our cattle producers are gone – America’s food security is at risk and Congress and the Administration need to wake up.

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release February 15, 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 2022 census…



Colorado Attorney General files lawsuit to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger

Colorado Attorney General files lawsuit to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger By Tony Gorman Matt Bloom/CPR NewsShoppers leave a City Market store in Cañon City on March 22, 2023. The potential $24.6 billion merger between the companies that own King Soopers and Safeway faces a legal challenge from the Colorado attorney general. AG Phil Weiser said in…



USDA Settles a Packers and Stockyards Case with Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation

USDA Settles a Packers and Stockyards Case with Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation Feb 14, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation (Cargill) of Wichita, Kan., on Feb. 5, 2024, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. An investigation by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)…



NO FARM BILL WITHOUT COOL

Op-Ed by Gilles Stockton, Montana Cattlemen’s Association Director This is the year to reinstate Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) for beef. Actually, last year was the year to reinstate COOL – along with all of the other priorities that are supposed to be re-authorized in the Farm Bill. If Congress does not address COOL now, it will be…



Update No. 4 — European Farmer Led Protest

Farmer-led protests in Europe continue in many countries. Protest leaders and masses of farmers are rejecting the concessions offered early on by the European Union Brussels center, and by national governments. Farmers, plus truckers and others, including fishermen, are demanding real change. There is hot conflict from place to place. The EU is on the…



Pushback meets governor’s plan to ‘streamline’ approval of Nebraska livestock operations

Supporters seek to take ’emotion’ out of decisions; opponents say it removes public hearings and public input to ease OKs of more confinement operations BY: PAUL HAMMEL – FEBRUARY 7, 2024 Pork producers who own a processing plant in Fremont include Gov. Jim Pillen, the plant received a $25 million federal grant. (Keith Weller/USDA Agricultural…



What’s Wrong with the Beef you Buy?

What’s Wrong with the Beef you Buy?



FARMERS’ PROTESTS REMAIN HOT IN EUROPE

Nationwide French farmer protests BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 15: Free-range hogs belonging to demonstrating farmers arrive to graze in front of the German federal chancellery on January 15, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The pigs, which are not treated with hormones or antibiotics except in medical emergencies and are only fed with non-genetically-modified food, were brought…



Perspectives on Agriculture: Past and Future

Posted onFebruary 4, 2024byMike Callicrate Callicrate note: Several years ago, in a conversation with John, we discussed the use of a new term describing what I thought was a better kind of agriculture.  Since “sustainable” had been stolen by big corporate ag, I suggested the word “regenerative” better described the kind of agriculture I wanted…



Agriculture Built High Plains Towns. Now, it Might Run Them Dry.

As the Ogallala Aquifer dwindles, rural towns try to keep their sole water source. MOSCOW, Kansas — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his white Silverado pickup, mud covering nearly all of it except the Kansas Geological Survey logo stuck…