Dale Patton: Support Callicrate, Support GIPSA

The news conference on Sept. 20, 2011 highlighted efforts by the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to not only ignore the unique needs and interests of family-sized cattle operations; but worse, to help big agribusinesses rapidly concentrate and consolidate the U.S. live cattle industry.
Mike Callicrate, owner of Callicrate Cattle Company, is under fire from EPA for not maintaining EPA-required paperwork and not constructing a pollution containment perimeter around his hay stacks and other livestock feed. "EPA now considers hay a pollutant," he said.
"My feedlot operates in accordance to and with the advice from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. There have been no discharges of any pollutants from my feedlot operation. There have been no problems at my feedlot until the Obama Administration's EPA stepped in," Callicrate said.
Callicrate said EPA has partnered with big agribusinesses to accelerate the exodus of family farmers and ranchers.
Speakers at the event were:
Callicrate Cattle Company owner, Mike Callicrate




R-CALF USA Region VI Director Nominee Mike Schultz
Kansas Cattlemen's Association Executive Director/CEO Brandy Carter




Kansas Farmers Union President Donn Teske
Cheyenne County, Kansas, Commissioner Dale Patton
R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard, who will moderate the panel.

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