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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

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...

http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/lost-jobs-why-fixing-trade-deficit-matters/

Coup d'etat in the Beef Industry: Tom Jones Resigns as Chairman of CBB beefcheckoff | July 12, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1BxtA-2C The post below comes from Parker Wilde and the United Food Policy blog; like everything else posted here it's available in the...

MCA: NCBA Represents 2% Or Less Of All Montana Cattle Producers...The Montana Beef Council Doesn't Speak For Us! beefcheckoff | July 10, 2011 at 11:08 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1BxtA-2i TO: CBB Members FROM: Kim Baker, President, Montana Cattlemen's Association...

Large retailers fight catfish farmers over proposed rule Natalia Real Southern catfish farmers and a trade association representing large retailers are clashing over a broad catfish safety rule. Wal-Mart and other retailers do not want US Agriculture Department (USDA) catfish...

Horses First, Carts Second (available on the internet) Alan Guebert You and I know that if we put the horse before the cart the chances of going anywhere are a million times better than if we put the cart first. This barnyard variant of Newton’s Second Law is well understood by the hundreds...

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/01/17/white-case-lands-top-fraud-prosecutor/ By Dionne Searcey Update, 1/18, 5:15 EST: Another SFO official has landed at a top American firm. Covington & Burling has announced they hired Robert Amaee in its London office. Amaee is the former head of the...

http://www.progressivedairy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4800:what-producers-can-learn-from-the-packers-and-stockyards-act&catid=49:management&Itemid=75 The PSA is one of those well-written laws that has not been sufficiently enforced. USDA understaffing and, at times in...

http://farmaid.blogspot.com/2011/06/make-call-for-fairness-for-family.html

Pew calls out the growing chorus against meat packer's and NCBA's call for rollback of GIPSA regulations http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/other-resources/background-and-summary-the-grain-inspection-packers-and-stockyard-administration-gipsa-rule-85899361029

Monday, April 25, 2011 Cowboy Makeover By Lee Pitts The American rancher had to be forced into the chair at the beauty salon with a wild rag stuffed in his mouth and a pair of hobbles on his ankles so he couldn’t run away, but the...

What an insult the NCBA has become to the producers. The AMI and meat packers use them as a tool. They are the meat packer's whore. I can see the "good" people at NCBA leaving the NCBA if they really cared about their producer constituents. Commentary on the end provided to Nemrancher who...

.....the rest went with the money

http://www.farmandranchguide.com/news/opinion/who-exactly-did-the-ncba-actually-corner/article_ae217238-8ee2-11e0-bffb-001cc4c002e0.html#user-comment-area We were angered to see recent headline of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) claiming "147 Members of Congress Corner USDA on...