Written by Chelcie Cargill, Lobbyist – Montana Farm Bureau, Melville, MT I firmly believe Montana farmers and ranchers care deeply about developing and growing consumer confidence and trust in…
Beef
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R-CALF USA has filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court alleging the nation’s four largest beef packers conspired to depress cattle prices and inflate their own margins. The…
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By Jennifer Houston, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President, Sweetwater, TN We’re not even a third of the way through 2019, but we already have a frontrunner for a political…
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A bill seeking changes to agricultural checkoff programs has been re-introduced in the Senate. The opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act of 2019 is backed by a bipartisan group…
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Last week, reports began flowing in of an agreement between the United States and the European Union concerning the long-standing dispute on beef. We’re hearing that the U.S. and the…
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U.S. beef exports tallied another record year in 2018, racking up a whopping $8.3 billion in sales. The Japanese market played a major part in that success, accounting for over…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday a formal agreement to…
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The January 1, 2019 inventory of all cattle and calves in the U.S. grew to 94.76 million, head, up 0.5 percent from one year ago. This puts the number of…
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Last year U.S. beef exports shattered the previous value record and achieved a new high for volume, according to year-end 2018 statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S.…
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Growing meat in the laboratory may do more damage to the climate in the long run than meat from cattle, according to new research. In a first-of-its-kind study from the…