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.
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A recent proposal by USDA which involves meat product labelling immediately raised the spectre of COOL, Country-of-Origin labelling, for Canadian red meat sectors. USDA proposed that ‘only’ meat products derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States should be allowed to carry a Made in the USA label. Back in late 2...
Despite being rescinded in 2015 due to NAFTA concerns, a host of farm groups are working to restore Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling, or MCOOL. The American Beef Labeling Act was introduced in Congress last year, which looks to reinstate MCOOL for beef and pork. Fifty c...
In the context of farm produced commodities, both crops and meat animals, what does the term product of the U.S. mean?
"Does it mean that everything that was done, with reference that product, was done in the US. Or does it mean animals born, but raise some place else and processed some place, other than the US."
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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
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