A group of around 400 farmers and ranchers rallied in Omaha this week to voice concern about the low prices paid to cattle producers while packers enjoy higher prices. Organization for Competitive Markets Executive Director Joe Maxwell says the rally goers and his group don’t feel the Ag Secretary is backing policies to help them. He says their next step is to rally support at the states and outline their concerns to the President and Congress.
He says the Ag Secretary needs to go because he’s failing America’s farmers and ranchers.
Maxwell says it’s time for the Ag Secretary to be replaced. He also says the President doesn’t likely understand what’s happening with either the Ag Secretary or the economic stress cattle producers are under.
Maxwell says it’s imperative that Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling be reinstated, that relabeling of foreign beef with a USA label be disallowed. And that there be a moratorium placed on beef imports coming in from Brazil as well as proper enforcement of mandatory price reporting.
