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NCBA Lies Again!!!!!!

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NCBA Resorts to Lies in Effort to Thwart Proposed Ban on Packer Ownership of Livestock



Source: R-CALF USA

February 13, 2008



Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA charges that the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has resorted to outrageous lies in order to defeat a measure in the Senate version of the 2007 Farm Bill that would protect independent producers from the anti-competitive practices of the largest multinational meatpackers.



“In various radio broadcasts, NCBA has made the outrageously false claim that the prohibition on packer ownership of livestock as contained in the Senate version of the Farm Bill would ‘make it illegal for producers to participate in value-added marketing programs such as Certified Angus Beef, any sort of marketing alliance, any sort of contracting,’” said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard.



In another sound bite, an NCBA spokesman said, ‘…it actually keeps producers from entering into marketing contracts and marketing alliances with other producers, feeders and packers to be able to have value-added cattle move forward...’


“These are outright lies,” Bullard asserted. “The provision in the Senate version of the Farm Bill actually protects a producer’s right to participate in marketing arrangements and contracts by clearly stating that the prohibition does not apply when producers maintain ownership of their livestock and when they materially participate in the management of their livestock production.



“In addition, the prohibition exempts any packer that owns only one processing plant, regardless of size, exempts any packer that slaughters fewer than 125,000 cattle annually (based on a 5-year average), and exempts any packer that is owned by producers through a cooperative,” he pointed out.



“It is difficult enough for producers to protect the competitiveness of their U.S. livestock market when just four meatpackers – that have more than 80 percent control over steer and heifer slaughter – have such dominate control over our markets,” Bullard continued. “Now, with NCBA going around the country and spreading false and outrageous claims in order to protect the largest meatpackers from needed reforms, producers are faced with an impossible situation.”



R-CALF USA believes the prohibition on packer ownership of livestock is a necessary reform to prevent the multinational packers from restricting producer access to the marketplace, a practice that enables those packers to gain a significant pricing advantage over cattle producers.



“The practice of packer ownership of livestock is what allowed the packers to gain full control over the entire U.S. poultry production industry, and which allowed the packers to eliminate 90 percent of independent U.S. hog operations,” said Bullard. “According to USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture), in just the last 25 years, the number of U.S. hog operations fell from 667,000 to only 67,000 from 1980 to 2005.



“Unless the cattle industry takes steps right now to protect the integrity of their marketplace, U.S. cattle producers will go the way of the hog industry – they will have to trade their independence for a production contract with the packers, provided they even receive an invitation to do so,” he emphasized.



r-calfusa.com
 

Sandhusker

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Doesn't Bullard know that all NCBA is doing is repeating what producers are telling them? He ought to talk to MRJ before flying off the handle with such rash accusations. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Triangle Bar

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Oldtimer, thanks for the post. This is exactly why I'm not a NCBA member, ever since the cattlemen's and feeder/packer groups merged together the NCBA has been pro packer.
Probably has something to do with the 'route of all evil', AKA Money.
 

RobertMac

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Hanta Yo said:
I see only you two R-Calfers are posting amongst yourselves, as usual :roll:

Do you believe that the large packers aren't going to use the same methods they have used in the pork and poultry industries in the cattle industry?
 

Sandhusker

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RobertMac said:
Hanta Yo said:
I see only you two R-Calfers are posting amongst yourselves, as usual :roll:

Do you believe that the large packers aren't going to use the same methods they have used in the pork and poultry industries in the cattle industry?

Has she ever answered this question, RM? Didn't you also ask Hanta the same thing?
 

RobertMac

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Sandhusker said:
RobertMac said:
Hanta Yo said:
I see only you two R-Calfers are posting amongst yourselves, as usual :roll:

Do you believe that the large packers aren't going to use the same methods they have used in the pork and poultry industries in the cattle industry?

Has she ever answered this question, RM? Didn't you also ask Hanta the same thing?

Of course not!!!!! None of the drive-by NCBAers can answer that question without having to face reality.....like in a concentrated industry, their packer partners can be bought out by a foreign company and the USA cattle industry can be at the mercy of a foreign entity!!! We have learned nothing from the Canadian situation!!!!!! :mad:

Randy, we need your help!!! :wink: :wink: 8)
 

PORKER

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Notice, $US dollar has fallen so far today that imports of beef to the US may be impossible in the near future. No one can afford to import at a loss. US COOL law causes reduction of meat imports and animals. ~~~

As the US dollar continues to fall in lockstep with house prices, foreign buyers will not provide the support that the US housing market needs to avoid a major crash. The second support could come from the US equity markets.

If the dollar continues to fall, foreign investors may begin to acquire companies with sound fundamentals that are also less vulnerable to a US economic slowdown. Both of these factors are contingent upon the US dollar showing signs of stabilization.

Foreign investors will only swoop in with size when they believe that dollar weakness is nearing an end. The third factor is less contingent upon the outlook for the US dollar which is that a weaker dollar also makes US corporations more attractive buyout targets.
 

Cinch

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I wonder what happened. Did they get caught lying? Jay Truitt was in the position responsible for the output R-CALF called lies!



http://ranchers.net/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&t=24072

NCBA chief lobbyist leaves unexpectedly
Friday, March 14, 2008, 4:30 PM

by Peter Shinn

Jay Truitt, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's (NCBA) Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the past three years, has unexpectedly left NCBA.

NCBA CEO Terry Stokes said Friday in a statement that he will run NCBA's office in Washington D.C. on an interim basis. A spokesperson for NCBA told Brownfield it's unclear whether Truitt left voluntarily or was fired.

Truitt replaced Chandler Keys when Keys left NCBA for Swift & Company, now JBS Swift, at the end of 2004.



http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=205618

Yesterday, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) announced a staff reorganization to continue to serve cattlemen, our state partners and the cattle industry in an ever-changing environment. We have simplified our organization into these areas:

- Governance, Leadership and State Services, led by Kendal Frazier

- Marketing and Communications, led by Kim Essex

- Member and Corporate Services, led by Polly Ruhland

- Research and Education, led by Dr. James O. Reagan

- Government Affairs, led by Terry Stokes, interim


NCBA’s mission is to increase profit opportunities for cattle and beef producers by enhancing the business climate and building beef demand. As a reflection of the changing industry, this restructuring occurred at the direction of NCBA’s officers to make NCBA efficient and effective at achieving this mission.

As part of this restructuring, three senior executives of NCBA are leaving the association. In addition, the vice president of government affairs [Jay Truitt] has resigned from his position to pursue other opportunities. We thank these professionals for their many years of committed service to our industry and to NCBA. We have immediately begun a search to identify the new head of NCBA's government affairs office. For more information about the opportunity, please contact NCBA at 303-694-0305.

NCBA is the leading organization representing America’s cattle ranchers and farmers. NCBA has two divisions: Membership and the Federation of State Beef Councils. NCBA’s membership has increased 8 percent in the past year and more than 20 percent in the past three years. NCBA members direct all that NCBA does to represent cattlemen in Washington, D.C. NCBA's Federation of State Beef Councils works to build and protect beef demand, and its efforts have always been made possible through producers' checkoff investment.

Terry Stokes, Chief Executive Officer, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
 
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Cinch said:
I wonder what happened. Did they get caught lying? Jay Truitt was in the position responsible for the output R-CALF called lies!

Maybe it was the statement I gave him the ATTA-BOY for...When the multinational Packers/Importers saw that he hadn't toed their line, they probably told NCBA he had to go... :wink: :lol:
 

RobertMac

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Hopefully mrj is right that the members actually do run NCBA and enough of them saw the direction "this leadership" was taking the organization...to the side of the packers and against producers.
Time will tell.
 

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