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Dear Editor,
I like your recent post Letter From the Editor on Counting Cows.
Don’t forget Canada who is the USA’s largest trading partner in beef (reciprocal trading too) is also very capable of
Ranchers ask federal court to block RFID traceability tags for cattle, bison
For the cause of traceability, radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags will be required in American beef cattle, dairy cows, and bison by Jan. 1, 2023.
Unless, of course, a Montana-based cattle ranchers’ organization can
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After court loss: Cattlemen want Trump to make COOL part of the deal
Those independent cattle ranchers who mostly hold up in Billings, MT, won’t back down when it comes to country of origin labeling (COOL), which is also favored by many food safety advocates. A federal judge
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Cattlemen ask judge to impose mandatory COOL for beef, pork
Opponents who could not see the issue more differently have nonetheless put the decision in the hands of a federal judge who heard the arguments last month, and she has not yet decided. At issue
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State legislative season underway with food bills on the table
At least 30 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, are already open for new legislative business. Most others will join the legislative season by next month.
They are essential to food safety
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Beef beef: NCBA chief’s remarks spur R-CALF to seek debate
The chief executive of the nation’s oldest and largest cattle industry association thinks a competing group is in bed with radical activists who want to “undermine the beef industry.”
Kendal Frazier, who is chief executive
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Cattlemen sue USDA in federal court over Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)
State and national cattlemen’s associations hope to team rope the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court over regulations that they say allow beef and pork to be classified as “domestic products” even when the
U.S. cattlemen see opportunity to reopen JBS anti-trust issue
Some U.S. cattle ranchers are seeing an opportunity in the way JBS Corp. has gotten itself tied up in Brazil’s political scandal. JBS USA is the wholly owned subsdiary of JBS S.A., the Brazilian corporation
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Brazilian beef ban petition fails to generate much interest
That petition on the White House’s “We the People” website calling for the United States to ban Brazilian beef was looking for 100,000 signatures. It fell a little short.
In fact it was short by
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Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef
Mandatory country-of-origin-labeling bills for beef and ground beef made it out of committees in Pierre and Cheyenne, but got no further in the farm and ranch friendly South Dakota and Wyoming Legislatures.
Senate Bill 135
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Montana unit of federal Beef Checkoff ordered to stand down
One of the state units of the federal Cattleman’s Beef Production and Research Board (Beef Board) will be effectively sidelined if a federal magistrate judge’s order is allowed to take effect.
In a series of
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