-RCALF USA BILLINGS, Mont. — R-CALF USA’s December launching of the cattle industry’s first-ever “Cattle Industry Long Range Plan,” coincides with the convening of a new Congress and a new administration this month. Whether the plan serves as a roadmap for Congress’ new agenda or President-elect Joe Biden’s new agenda will, according to R-CALF USA, be decided by the nation’s cattle producers themselves. The plan contains objectives never before offered for the benefit of the cattle industry’s hundreds of thousands of independent U.S. cattle producers, both large and small. Its departure from previously combined cattle and beef industry plans is revealed by its primary focus directed towards cattle and cattle producers, not towards beef and beef packers.