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Negative reaction to GIPSA rule may actually reinforce its justification The reaction to part of the proposed GIPSA rule that was issued on June 22, 2010 may in itself suggest the need for Section 201.211. This is the section that addresses the issue of packers offering premiums to some...

Negative reaction to GIPSA rule may actually reinforce its justification The reaction to part of the proposed GIPSA rule that was issued on June 22, 2010 may in itself suggest the need for Section 201.211. This is the section that addresses the issue of packers offering premiums to some...

Best read from link below: http://agpolicy.org/weekpdf/580.pdf Tex

There you go supporting crap foreign meat again, mrj. I do care about it and my wife and I do purchase things made in the USA and we do put off buying A LOT of things that do not come from this country and we will continue to do so until our trade deficits are corrected. Who are you to say I...

Isn't it nice for the NMA to speak for groups like rcalf? :wink: It is unimportant for consumers to know that their beef is Angus or any other marketing plan unless those are actually marketing plans that make a difference on the shelf. All Branded programs are marketing ploys to consumers...

COOL enforcement lax, audit finds By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press The USDA has not imposed any penalties on retailers who have failed to comply with country-of-origin labeling requirements, according to an agency audit. The agency's Agricultural Marketing Service, which oversees the COOL...

So you are scared of the word "factory farm"? Let me break it down for you because I am intimately familiar with it on many levels. Meat packers are trying to portray their product as coming from family farmers for obvious reasons but for you I will state them. Most people do not like their...

I never heard of any of these people, Beefman. I did actually try to call PETA about an issue once and found them so disorganized as to be quite useless in clearing up anything. Just because you don't like what I said is no reason to call it plagiarism. Do you have any difficulty in...

I think all these companies with factory farms have veterinarians on staff and could continue to do what they are doing if it only takes a vet. prescription to keep antibiotics in the food chain for profit in the factory farms. Tex

Is that what happened with the Florida convention? It sounded to me as if the NCBA made commitments that were not approved by the CBB and then instead of having to pay for it, the NCBA changed the CBB leadership. That just doesn't sound like the story you are a'tellen mrj. Tex

Now you know the secret, Kato. It is the poultry industry swallowing up the beef industry and they have left a lot of skeletons behind. How any beef person can get in bed with them is beyond me. They know not what they do. Tex

There has to be more to this story than what is here. We need deeper stories on what happened and what went wrong. Did someone on Gibson's selling side mess up? Did they not cover their purchases either on the futures or with pre purchase agreements when they were buying? Were they just...

The underlying economics in the poultry biz and the inability of the U.S. government to enforce the rules of the market create continual over supply in the poultry markets. It is what the big companies use to push the little ones out and concentrate the markets as well as steal demand from beef...

Free markets are the best when there is a set of rules there that are enforced that actually protect the functions of the market. It is just like traffic laws. Red lights, stop signs, speed limits, and all the rest are laws that are meant to allow traffic to flow the best in the safest manner...

I totally agree with you here with your steak points. I just wish more checkoff money would get spent on actual advertisements than good old boy back slapping and what are we going to do meetings that eat up the budget. I don't think anyone contributing to the checkoff wants their money wasted...