On May 17, six farm groups joined voices to call on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Congress, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure a âmore financially sustainable situation for cattle feeders and cow-calf producers.â
Thatâs make-nice farm talk for âMeatpackers are skinning U.S. cattlemen so badly now that we six, not-usually-friendly groups ask the federal governmentâswamp or no swampâto do something fast to save whatâs left of our well-tanned hides.â
Guebert
The fact that it took the farm group officials a whole day to hammer out a very modest agenda on what to do, then an entire week to agree on what to say in the brief press release, shows just how far a reach it was for some of these leaders to even shake hands.
A coalition of agriculture and forestry groups filed court motions defending the delisting of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act. Three ca.
Bottemiller Evich writes, “JBS, the world’s largest meat packer, has left the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in a surprise move that comes as the group began taking a harder line on concerns about market consolidation.
“NCBA, the beef industry’s main lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., recently joined with an unusually broad range of farm and cattle producer groups to call for more transparency in the market and ask the Department of Justice to publicly report on its ongoing antitrust investigation. Sixteen members of Congress also wrote to DOJ this week seeking an update on the probe.”
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This week, a coalition of agriculture and forestry groups including the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Forest Resources Council, the American Sheep Industry Association, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the Public Lands Council filed motions in court in defense of delisting the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act.
Three cases filed by environmental and animal welfare groups in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenge the final delisting rule issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Nov. 3, 2020. The coalition is defending the delisting because it recognizes the successful recovery of the wolf, and enables responsible wildlife management and protection of private property by farmers, ranchers, and forest resource users.
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