Group Responds to Tyson Complaint Letter; Asks Nation’s Largest Meatpacker to Withdraw Action to Seize Schumacher’s Home

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America

 

“Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer”

 

For Immediate Release                                                                                    

Contact: Shae Dodson, Communications Coordinator

June 27, 2009                                                                                               Phone:  406-672-8969; e-mail: sdodson@r-calfusa.com

Asks Nation’s Largest Meatpacker to Withdraw Action to Seize Schumacher’s Home

Billings, Mont. – On the day R-CALF USA conducted its June 26, 2009, news conference before a crowd of about 150 in the small town of Herreid, S.D., to highlight Tyson Fresh Meat’s (Tyson’s) seizure of the home of Herreid, S.D., rancher and cattle feeder Herman Schumacher, Tyson faxed R-CALF USA a complaint letter.