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Earlier this week, R-CALF urged ranchers to send emails to the White House in favor of Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling for beef. The organization issued an action alert saying, “emails needed this week to the White House and calls needed to congress for M-COOL.” Fo ...

Cattle groups met in Florida last week to discuss reforms to the beef industry. The meetings included the U.S. Cattlemen's Association, the Organization for Competitive Markets, and R-CALF USA. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the nation's largest cattle group, was invited but did not participate ...

R-CALF USA is the only national cattle organization opposed to a proposal to mandate radio frequency identification eartags starting January 2023. The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service proposal would require RFID tags as Official Identification in cattle and bison. R-CA ...

A U.S. District Court in Minnesota has dismissed an anti-trust lawsuit against meatpackers like Tyson Foods, JBS, the National Beef Packing Company, and Cargill. R-CALF led several plaintiffs in filing the lawsuit. Chief Judge John Tunheim left open the opportunity for plaintiffs to amend their complaint ...

R-CALF USA has asked Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue to consider opening up the 24 million acres of land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency grazing. The group says it would help to alleviate the backlog in the live cattle supply chain caused by COVID-19, which has reduced overall slaughter capacity ...

Finding beef products has become challenging in many portions of the country during this COVID-19 pandemic. R-CALF USA has launched a new Website that connects consumers with their neighboring cattle farmers and ranchers. Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF USA, said they were alarmed to find that the beef industry has been been telling cattle producers that they are over producing, and yet turning aroun

The Beef Checkoff program and fifteen grassroots-led state beef councils won a major court victory last week. The U.S. District Court of Montana ruled in favor of USDA and the Montana Beef Council in the matter of R-CALF vs. Sonny Perdue and USDA ...

In response to the late February announcement by USDA opening the U.S. market to fresh beef from Brazil, R-CALF is calling for the restoration of mandatory Country-of-Origin meat labeling. The organization points out that Brazil is a country with a history of engaging in corrupt food safety practices, and is distributing a research paper to congressional offices titled Restoring Mandatory COOL f

A decision in lawsuit against the USDA and multiple state beef checkoff’s favor the federal programs. The lawsuit, filed by R-CALF, claims there is a lack of oversight in state beef councils. However, a magistrate decision sided with USDA and the state organizations earlier this week.  ...

Last week, the USDA issued a proposed rule to reapportion the Beef Checkoff Program’s Cattlemen’s Beef Board.  R-CALF said the proposed rule reveals importers control more cattle inventories than any state in the U.S. except Texas.  To make its ca...