Category: r-calf
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Beef Checkoff News
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=67537" >Jolley: The Checkoff – Two Decades Of Sleeping At The Financial Switch</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Beef industry leaders met in Kansas City this summer to take a fresh look at the Beef Checkoff program. The 17-member industry-wide Beef Checkoff Task Force established their mission this way: “to review, study and recommend enhancements to the Beef…
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Get the Story Straight
I think Leo McDonnell, Past President of R-CALF USA, needs to get his story straight. At a recent <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/090506-mississippi.htm">get together in Mississippi</a> he told the gathered crowd;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>“R-CALF USA does not support the proposed Animal ID system,” he said. “It is hypocrisy to put such a costly and burdensome regulation on the U.S.…
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Case Number Eight
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/health/national/2006/08/23/mad-cow060-823.html" title="Case Number Eight">Canada reports new case of mad cow disease</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday a new case of mad cow disease in Alberta.<br />n<br />nIt is Canada's fifth case in 2006 and the eighth since 2003, when the disease was first found in this country, officials said.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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USDA Pulls Plan
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/28/news/state/33-import.txt">Cattle groups pleased with halt of import plan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Officials with leading cattle industry groups in the state said they were pleased with the federal government's plan to halt, for now, an effort to expand cattle and beef trade with Canada because of mad cow disease. A leader of one of those groups, however,…
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At it Again
Well R-calf is at it again.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/071306-canada's.htm">Canada’s Latest <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Case in Youngest Animal Yet; <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Must Rescind Final Rule</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Today the Canadian government confirmed its fourth positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform…
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Bigger Picture
<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/News%20Releases/020706-oig.htm">OIG Report Solidifies Position of U.S. Cattle Industry; <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Continues to Ignore Its Own Science</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>BILLINGS, MONT. (February 7, 2006) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat…
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Private Database and NAIS
<a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> abandons private database concept for <acronym title="National Animal Identification System">NAIS</acronym></a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>, after hearing strong opposition from the industry, has abandoned its earlier decision to…
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Australian Perspective on NAIS
<a href="http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060123/15/3y45t.html">R-CALF Mtg: Australian Cattleman Tells Of ID Shortcomings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>From cattle producer Athol Economou's perspective, Australia's national animal identification system is virtually useless, and the true costs are unknown.<br />n<br />n Economou, also a representative of the Australian Beef Association, made his remarks Friday at the R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America's annual convention in…
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Talking Out His ***
R-Calf's new leader needs to take a long walk off a short pier.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2006/01/22/build/state/22-rcalf-group.inc">R-CALF's new leader wants to expand group</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The new leader of R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America wants to change perceptions of the group that some in the cattle industry describe as protectionist or out of the mainstream, because of…
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This Explains Things
The Montana Stockgrowers, a branch of the National Cattlmans Beef Association (<acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>) which is lead by the meat packers and big feeders and not the cattle prodsucers, keeps wondering why they are losing members. Look at <a href="http://www.montanacattlemen.org/mca_passes_resolutions.htm">this list of issues</a> the Montana Cattlemans Association,…