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 persuade a federal judge in Wyoming to call a halt to the RFID mandate handed
Continue Reading Ranchers ask federal court to block RFID traceability tags for cattle, bison
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 in Spokane just declined to bring back COOL for beef and pork, but the ranchers
Continue Reading After court loss: Cattlemen want Trump to make COOL part of the deal
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 is whether USDA was wrong to remove mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements after
Continue Reading Cattlemen ask judge to impose mandatory COOL for beef, pork
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 if for no other reason than state legislatures provide all or partial funding for many
Continue Reading State legislative season underway with food bills on the table
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 officer of the Denver-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, took a shot or two at the
Continue Reading Beef beef: NCBA chief’s remarks spur R-CALF to seek debate
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 meat products involved are imported from foreign counties to confuse American consumers and harm U.S.
Continue Reading Cattlemen sue USDA in federal court over Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)
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 that is the world’s largest fresh beef and pork processor with sales of $52.3 billion
Continue Reading U.S. cattlemen see opportunity to reopen JBS anti-trust issue
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 97,985 signatures and is now locked down.
The Billings, MT-based Rancher-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund or
Continue Reading Brazilian beef ban petition fails to generate much interest
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 went down in the South Dakota Senate on Feb. 25. It would have required grocery
Continue Reading Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef
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 preliminary rulings that went almost entirely against federal Beef Board, U.S. Magistrate Judge John Johnston
Continue Reading Montana unit of federal Beef Checkoff ordered to stand down
