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    R-CALF, GIPSA, AMA's, BSE, Farm Bill

    Jolley: Five Minutes With Randy Stevenson, R-CALF USA http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=110476 Let me start by saying Randy Stevenson isn’t your shy cowboy. He’s got an opinion (or two) and he’s more than willing to share it in a variety of venues. For instance, he’s an...
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    Event Notice: Leo McDonnell to Testify for R-CALF USA

    The Event Notice just released from R-CALF. I just got it in the mail(email). The date has a typo on it. See Dorgan's press release announcing the same event. http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=269013 If you want further proof, note that twice February 21st is referred to as...
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    An Appropriate Poem

    John Godfrey Saxe's ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend, It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approach'd the Elephant, And happening to fall...
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    Tsk Tsk Tsk

    From a DTN Story John Clifford, chief veterinarian with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, told members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association working group for Canada-U.S. trade that Swift had actually imported the cattle and then they were improperly co-mingled with...
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    R-CALF Convention in January

    Anybody going?
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    The REAL Conservative View of NAFTA

    This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53023 Sunday, November 19, 2006 THE NEW WORLD DISORDER 'Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place' Tancredo says...
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    Beware of Foreign Dishware

    That brightly colored pottery you bought on your last vacation looks great on the shelf - and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sug- gests that you keep it there. Ceramics produced in countries other than the United States, France, and the United Kingdom may be sealed with glazes that can...
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    The Effect of Country of Origin Labeling

    Wal-Mart to sell only U.S. shrimp in 3 states The Biloxi Sun Herald, MS August 25, 2006 By MIKE KELLER Wal-Mart seafood counters in Alabama, Florida, and Texas will carry only wild shrimp caught in American waters, thanks to overwhelming demand by consumers, a shrimp-industry group said...
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    Economics Doesn't Turn Wrong into Right

    May 15, 2006 Economics Doesn't Turn Wrong into Right We have long advocated for the enforcement of laws already on the books. We have already pointed out the lack of enforcement of the Packers & Stockyards Act. The failure to enforce immigration laws is just as bad. While we applaud the new...
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    Cattle Producers Will Work Together to Remedy Supreme Court

    03/28/2006 Cattle Producers Will Work Together to Remedy Supreme Court’s Pickett Decision R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America (Billings, Mont.) – Independent cattle producers across the United States were dealt a temporary setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) denied plaintiffs...
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    What R-CALF does instead of paying 20 professional lobbyists

    Dozens of Cattle Producers Participate in Historic Washington Stampede (Billings, Mont.) – Scores of independent U.S. cattle producers from 22 states traveled to the nation’s capitol last week to participate in R-CALF USA’s Washington Stampede, a two-day outreach effort on Capitol Hill in which...
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    OCM Supports Legislation to Revitalize Packers and Stockyard

    OCM Supports Legislation to Revitalize Packers and Stockyards Act Lincoln, NE ~ On Thursday, February 16, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Craig Thomas (R-WY) introduced legislation that will enhance and strengthen the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act. The Organization for...
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    R-CALF on the Checkoff

    Beef Checkoff Committee Established; Resolutions Head to Members for Vote (DENVER) – During its recent annual convention in Denver, R-CALF USA held an inaugural Beef Checkoff Committee meeting, a concept created by R-CALF USA Co-Founder, Region I Director and Former President Leo McDonnell, as...
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    Top 10 Reasons Against Mandatory Animal ID

    Top 10 Reasons Against Mandatory Animal ID 10. Liability Problem. With traceback in place meat packing companies with an array of corporate lawyers could easily argue for a misplaced liability back along the line to the producer. 9. No Clear Congressional Directive. Currently all animal i.d...
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    R-CALF Convention

    Who's going to be at the R-CALF Convention?
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    A fun challenge for ~SH~ or any others

    Take the quiz at the link below. Tell me how you score. Takes less than two minutes. DISCLAIMER--I disagree with some of the underlying principles of the quiz, but not all of them. I think you will be surprised. http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
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    Bob Taylor's "untested" theories of price manipula

    There has been much made of the so-called “untested theories” of Bob Taylor. These theories were what Taylor called the “causation mechanisms” of price manipulation. There were six of them. They were: 1. Asymmetric information 2. Preferential deals for the “chosen ones” increases total supply...
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    Was there a competing bid?

    I heard a rumor. Does somebody know the facts? I heard that the Beef Board received a bid from someone else other than the NCBA for some beef promotion activity. I heard that it was a lower bid but the Beef Board gave it to NCBA anyway. If it is a government mandated tax (Supreme Court...
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    How About Following the Constitution?!?!

    The Constitution: (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2) He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; ON THE OTHER HAND The President: Source: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press...
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    I am a Minority

    I am sure I am a minority here. I am a member of OCM. I am here to root out and destroy liberal ideas from those who call themselves conservative but aren't. (some of them don't even know it) So prepare to have your eyes opened!
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