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R-CALF USA CEO To Keynote Australian Beef Producers Summit

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R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America


“Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer”

For Immediate Release Contact: Bill Bullard, CEO
June 16, 2010 Phone: 406-252-2516; e-mail: [email protected]


R-CALF USA CEO To Keynote Australian Beef Producers Summit




Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard has accepted an invitation by the Australian Beef Association (ABA) to be the keynote speaker at the Australia Beef Producers’ Summit to be held Friday, June 25, 2010, at the Casino NSW, Australia. Brad Bellinger, ABA President, explained that Bullard was invited because the ABA views “R-CALF as a sister organization to the ABA because their policies a re almost identical to ours.”



The ABA is a national, representative body in Australia that focuses on improving profitability for the country’s beef industry by giving control and ownership of industry projects and policy back to Australian beef industry members. According to the news release announcing Bullard’s upcoming arrival in Australia, the ABA has been fighting for 13 years against what they call an “undemocratic structure of the meat industry that has shamelessly been supported by politicians of both sides.”



Bullard said Australia is the world’s second larges exporter of beef and third largest exporter of cattle, as well as the number two exporter of beef to the United States, second only behind Canada. “In theory, U.S. cattle producers compete directly with Australian cattle producers to maximize their respective shares of the U.S. beef market; but the reality is that the global beef market is so heavily controlled by only a handful of dominant meatpackers that producers in both countries are being exploited.



“Australia has been closely following R-CALF USA’s work in restoring competition to the U.S. cattle market, protecting U.S. livestock from the introduction of foreign animal diseases, and stopping the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from imposing an onerous national animal identification system on the U.S. cattle industry. These are all issues that are of keen interest to Australian cattle producers and they will be discussed during the Australian Beef Producers’ Summit,” said Bullard.



“Cattle producers around the globe deserve the opportunity to market their cattle in an open and competitive marketplace that is free from the monopolistic market practices of dominant meatpackers. By sharing what we know and what R-CALF USA is doing on behalf of cattle producers here in the United States with cattle producers around the globe, we are more likely achieve this important goal and more likely to achieve it sooner rather than later,” Bullard concluded.



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R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle industry. R-CALF USA represents thousands of U.S. cattle producers on trade and marketing issues. Members are located across 47 states and are primarily cow/calf operators, cattle backgrounders, and/or feedlot owners. R-CALF USA directors and committee chairs are extremely active unpaid volunteers. R-CALF USA has dozens of affiliate organizations and various main-street businesses are associate members. For more information, visit www.r-calfusa.com or, call 406-252-2516.
 

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