Bill Bullard

R-Calf USA is warning of catastrophic consequences if the 2023 Farm Bill doesn’t include reforms.  CEO Bill Bullard said the future important infrastructure components to remain competitive such as participants, cattle and markets are in jeopardy.   “And f...

Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah is leading a bipartisan effort to reform agricultural checkoff programs.  Lee was joined by Democrats Cory Booker, Kristen Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren, and Republican Rand Paul, in reintroducing the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act.  Checkof...

R-CALF USDA is concerned about potential harmful requirements under a USDA plan.  The Department of Ag looks to reimburse producers for livestock that die when the government orders de-population efforts, during disease outbreaks such as foot-and-mouth disease.  R-CALF ...

Issues and obstacles facing the cattle industry were just a few of the highlights from last month’s “Code of the West” convention hosted by R-CALF USA in Deadwood, South Dakota.  The 23rd Annual National Convention saw consumers and industry representatives come together to address a host of issues.  R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard s...

R-CALF calls the White House action plan for the meat supply chain "progress", but the group remains skeptical about the plan. The effort includes government funding intended to slowly rebuild the competitive marketing channels for cattle and beef, which has created what the administration calls a "bottleneck" in the nation's food supply chain ...

R-CALF USA awaits the full text of the compromise Cattle Market Price Discovery and Transparency Bill to analyze the legislation. The final language of the compromise is not yet publicly available. However, reacting to the news, R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard said, “Publicly available information does not indicate the compromise bill does what we asked." ...

A new effort from USDA to bring transparency to cattle pricing is getting a lukewarm response from the industry, and some criticism. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said the problem is that large amounts of cattle taken out of the cash market that don't contribute to price discovery ...

R-CALF recently submitted comments to the USDA that identified two factors as, what the organization called the core structural problems causing the current crisis in the U.S. cattle industry. R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard said the first factor, concentration in the beef packing sector, created the second problem ...

A bipartisan effort is underway in Washington D.C. to manage what some have called a food crisis when it comes to the prices livestock producers receive. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said consumers are paying rapidly higher prices at the store, but cattle prices are collapsing ...

R-Calf USA recently penned a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concerns over proposed changes to federal procurement regulations for beef. CEO, Bill Bullard, said the group told the President he could strengthen the domestic cattle supply chain by changing the current standard to requiring that only animals born, raised and slaughtered in the United States be eligible for U.S. product des