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OCM Letter to President Biden on “Made in America”

Mike Eby

January 28, 2021 United States President Joe Biden  The White House  1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW  Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: On behalf of independent cattle farmers and ranchers in the United States, we appreciate the “Made in America” ​​executive order you signed on Monday, which strengthens U.S. purchasing regulations and ensures that U.S. workers have a future. However, please note that since the repeal of the U.S. mandatory country of origin labeling law (m-COOL) in 2015, USA Read More …

Organization for Competitive Markets Addresses disparaging comments from NCBA leadership

Fred Stokes

LINCOLN, NE – Today the Organization for Competitive Markets issued the following statement from Fred Stokes, VP and founder of OCM, after a series of cattlemen’s meetings held in Florida in an attempt to bring industry stakeholders together for the betterment of the industry. This statement follows a campaign of misinformation by NCBA president Marty Smith and CEO Colin Woodall who attacked OCM and it’s board members. “Colin Woodall, speaking on behalf of NCBA has resorted to absurd Read More …

Organization for Competitive Markets Addresses Beef Checkoff President’s Cowardly Misinformation, Failure to Disclose NCBA’s Partnership with World Wildlife Fund and Humane Society of the U.S.

Mike Eby

October 31, 2020 TAMPA, FL – Today the Organization for Competitive Markets issued the following statement after a series of cattlemen’s meetings held in Florida regarding the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Beef Checkoff Program, a quasi-governmental agency known as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). The statement follows a campaign of misinformation by NCBA president Marty Smith who attacked OCM, it’s board members, and cowardly deflected open conversations related to NCBA’s consistent pattern of spending hard-earned farmer dollars Read More …

OCM Hires Mike Eby as Executive Director

OCM Staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2020   Media Contact: Ben Gotschall bgotschall@competitivemarkets.com 402-540-1342   OCM Hires Mike Eby as Executive Director   Pennsylvania farmer will lead anti-monopoly, pro-competition ag group   LINCOLN, NE: The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) is pleased to announce that it has hired Pennsylvania farmer Mike Eby as its new executive director.   Eby is a seventh-generation farmer whose family has been on their land for 206 years.  In 1999, Eby purchased his father’s Read More …