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	PRESS RELEASES 2004 1998-2002 / 2003-2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 NEWSLETTERS AG LITIGATION UPDATES EVENTS

	December 27, 2004 OCM Optimistic Pickett Jury Verdict will be Reinstated December 7, 2004 OCM – Mandatory COOL Needed for Food Safety December 6, 2004 Pickett v Tyson Appellate Arguments Slated for December 17 December 2, 2004 OCM Congratulates Ag Secretary Nominee Johanns November 17, 2004 OCM: Mandatory Price Reporting Should be Renewed and Improved November 12, 2004 OCM: “Kill COOL” Strategy Should be Opposed October 5, 2004 OCM: Canadian Feed Ban Violations Should Halt Beef Imports September 29, 2004 OCM: U.S. Bank Withdraws From Brief Supporting Tyson September 23, 2004 Statement and Notice of Withdrawal of U.S. Bank National Association as Amicus Curiae September 15, 2004 South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and OCM To Jointly Promote Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project August 25, 2004 NPPC Files Brief Supporting Tyson in Price Manipulation Case August 10, 2004 OCM Cautiously Optimistic on USDA Change in BSE Policy August 4, 2004 OCM Presents Pickett Plaintiffs, Attorneys, Economic Expert with John Helmuth Award July 29, 2004 OCM Files Amicus Brief in Support of Indirect Purchaser Suits Johnson v. Microsoft: Amicus Brief July 16, 2004 OCM’s 2004 Food and Agriculture Conference: Has USDA Been Hijacked by Industry? July 2, 2004 OCM Says USDA BSE Announcement Policy Costing Producers Over $6M Per Day June 23, 2004 OCM’s Michael Stumo Addresses American Antitrust Institute on Buyer Power June 17, 2004 OCM Urges Opposition to Goodlatte/Stenholm “Kill COOL” Bill June 16, 2004 OCM Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Pickett v Tyson Appeal Pickett v. Tyson: OCM Amici Brief Pickett v. Tyson: Motion for Leave to File Amici Brief June 2, 2004 OCM Concerned About Risk of False Positives in USDA BSE Plan May 6, 2004 OCM Supports Gateway Beef’s Petition to Voluntarily Test for BSE April 23, 2004 OCM Says Judge Wrong To Throw Out Pickett Verdict On Technicalities: Plaintiff's Will Appeal April 20, 2004 OCM Says USDA’s Lifting of Beef Import Restrictions Unlawful and Preferential April 14, 2004 OCM Supports Bono-Hooley Legislation to Reinstate COOL April 6, 2004 OCM Supports Effort by Creekstone Farms to Restore Japanese Markets March 2004 America's Cattlemen's Trial by Michael Stumo February 23, 2004 Pickett Trial Showed Captive Supplies Reduced Market Access and Choice February 17, 2004 Jury Awards $1.3 Billion to Cattlemen in Pickett Case January 13, 2004 OCM Responds to Anti-Consumer Attack by NCBA January 6, 2004 OCM: COOL Must be Part of the BSE Safety Solution January 5, 2004 Annual Wheel Horse Media Award Recipients Announced December 31, 2003 OCM: USDA’s New Moves Insufficient to Re-Establish Exports, Country of Origin Labeling Needed December 30, 2003 OCM: Lack of Cool Costing $27 Million Per Day in Lost Revenue - Over $15 billion in equity lost December 29, 2003 OCM: Country of Origin Labeling Would Have Limited BSE Economic Impact - USDA Should Have Earlier Informed the Public of Presumptive Canadian Origin December 26, 2003 OCM: U.S. Could Preserve BSE-Free Status if Diseased Cow Was Imported - Futures Trading Limits Should Be Narrowed December 17, 2003 OCM/Grassley Hold Competition Meetings in Iowa September September 3, 2003 OCM's Hog Competition Fund Endorsed by County Producer Groups in Iowa August 26, 2003 OCM Introduces Hog Competition Fund August 22, 2003 Nebraska Producers Support Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project July 29, 2003 OCM Says Labeling Will Empower Consumers To Make Food Safety Choices July 23, 2003 Agricultural Consolidation and the Smithfield-Farmland Deal July 18, 2003 OCM Says Smithfield Purchase of Farmland Will Violate Antitrust Law July 16, 2003 OCM Sees Silver Lining in House anti-COOL Vote June 20, 2003 OCM Expresses Concern Over Possible Anti-Competition Bias of Packer Ownership Hearing June 13, 2003 OCM's Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project Calls For Hearings on Packer Price Gouging May 20, 2003 OCM Says Canada Mad Cow Case Affirms Need for Labeling to Preserve Consumer Confidence May 16, 2003 CCMP Supports Captive Supply Reform Act May 2003 VanSickle, et al, "Country of Origin Labeling: A Legal and Economic Analysis," International Agricultural Trade and Policy Center, University of Florida May 13, 2003 OCM's CCMP welcomes Herman Schumacher to steering committee May 8, 2003 OCM says cattle producers to benefit by over $5.9 billion from COOL Testimony of OCM Board Member Cap Dierks before USDA Country of Origin Labeling Listening Session, Kearney, Nebraska May 6, 2003 Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project receives unanimous support from R-CALF USA May 2, 2003 Montana Cattlemen's Association endorses OCM's Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project April 18, 2003 "OCM Says Federal Antitrust Authorities Fail to Justify ADM Merger" April 11, 2003 "OCM's Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project Applauds Favorable Decision in Cattle Price Manipulation Case" April 9, 2003 "OCM Tells USDA to Track Only Imported Product for Labeling Rules" April 7, 2003 "New Study Says Consumers Willing to Pay More for US Labeled Beef" March 19, 2003 "OCM's Cattle Competition Project Gaining Traction" March 3, 2003 "OCM Files Amicus Brieff in Support of State’s Right to Stop Wal-Mart Merger" February 26, 2003 "OCM Submits Realistic Costs and Concepts to USDA on COOL Rules" February 25, 2003 "OCM's Amicus brief filed in Wal-Mart case before the First Circuit Court of Appeals" February 21, 2003 OCM's official comments to USDA on labeling February 17, 2003 "OCM says Position Paper on Labeling by Packer Lobbying Group is Wrong" February 10, 2003 "OCM Joins 100 Groups Telling Congress that USDA Cost Estimate for Labeling Too High" January 28, 2003 "Questions & Answers on OCM's Cattlemen's Competitive Markets Project" January 28, 2003 "OCM Announces Cattlemen's Competitive Market Project"



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