POLICY
National checkoff leaders this week approved a Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) budget of about $40.7 million for Fiscal 2014, reflecting a 5.6 percent decrease from the Fiscal 2013 amended budget, amid continued tight supplies and an expected slowing of cow slaughter.
Cattlemen are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s findings and rules regarding greenhouse gases .
Steve Cornett says there are two lessons that the cattle industry should have learned during the last couple of years and apparently didn’t.
Operating Committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board makes $2.9 million in cuts to meet budget constraints.
The association commended the passage of the legislation.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says it’s ready to work with Congress and the Obama Administration to finalize the rule.
A group of 31 United States senators sent a letter to government agencies urging a finalization of a comprehensive rule for BSE.
The Federation of State Beef Councils discussed key organizational structure and elects officers.
Cattle producers are being asked to provide their input to the 2011-2012 National Beef Quality Audit by taking a short survey
If every calf, cow and bull had a unique number all stored in a central location like a USDA database, cattle owners, buyers and lenders would all be protected.
Congress voted on a $19.8 billion 2012 agricultural spending bill that includes language blocking USDA from implementing the rule.
With the prices we expect to charge when the cycle tops, we’ll need all the value we can get.
The announcement will classify six strains of non-O157 E. coli as ‘adulterants’ when found in ground beef.
The Beef Checkoff financial firewall at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is functioning as it should, according to officials.
Cattle group says stalling on the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement poses serious consequences for U.S agriculture.
Agriculture groups praise signing of eminent domain reform legislation into law in Texas.
A letter, signed by 147 Congressional members. asks USDA about the time line on the economic Impact analysis and re-proposal of livestock marketing rule.
A bipartisan group of 170 members of Congres sent a letter expressing concern over expanding jurisdiction over U.S. waters by some agencies.
USDA is doing all it can to make its animal traceability program politically acceptable.
Some feel U.S. environmental laws partly to blame for hampering the ability of agencies to adequately protect the border.
Industry representatives this past week outlined their views on key beef industry issues, including GIPSA and ethanol.
During a House Agriculture Committee hearing Friday, two committee members questioned Secretary Tom Vilsack about a timeline for completion of an economic analysis.
The amendment would block funds from being used by EPA to modify the national primary ambient air quality standard.
Policy resolutions approved include policy on immigration, food safety, marketing, cattle health, and federal lands.
The priories include trade; transportation; environment; competition; and healthy herd – cattle and consumers
But House Democrats want changes, focusing mostly on estate taxes
Washington, D.C. session pulled previous sessions together and had focus on margins.