United States Cattlemen's Association

What it reported doing in 2024

USCA continues to support country of origin labeling (cool) and truth in labeling. USCA members continue conversations with the USDA, the U.S. trade representative, the white house, and congressional leaders on the need to establish a truthful country of origin labeling program for U.S. beef. USCA continues to support prescriptive labeling for meat products imported into the United States. USCA continues to advocate for the reform of the current beef checkoff program. USCA hosted a monthly conference call to inform cattlemen about current industry issues such as animal health, trade, and marketing competition. Information input, suggestions and questions are encouraged and experts in various fields are often available on the calls. USCA representatives attended local cattlemen's meetings and hosted meetings in multiple states. We continue to build a coast-to-coast organization and cater to our consumers desire for the highest quality beef in the world whether that be conventionally raised, organically grown or somewhere in the middle. USCA held fly-ins to Washington D.C. where cattlemen talked to their congressmen and officials at USDA about issues such as ensuring fair market competition, increasing market transparency, addressing mandatory price reporting and packer ownership of cattle, as well as trade, cool, beef checkoff reform, the clean water act, FMD prevention, livestock transportation issues and animal health. USCA has worked with animal health officials to bring forth productive discussions on the issue of disease trace back and has worked with officials at USDA on their proposed animal disease traceability program. USCA encouraged USDA to develop an animal disease trace back system that is adequately funded and meets the needs of animal health officials at the state and tribal level without burdening producers with additional costs or subjecting them to an unworkable system. USCA published a quarterly newsletter informing members of the actions of the organization and discussing issues of interest to cattle producers. USCA produced a weekly capital update email message to members and other interested parties which includes brief introductory remarks as well as various news articles of interest to cattle producers. USCA continued to monitor and make comments on the environmental protection agency's interpretation of the clean water act and supported legislation that would prohibit the EPA from superseding a state's authority over issues pertaining to water quality standards and pollutant discharge mandates. USCA remained actively engaged in this arena. USCA supported the continued funding of the Usdaaphis wildlife services. USCA supported increased access to broadband and highspeed internet services throughout rural America. USCA continues to monitor the federally issued dietary guidelines. USCA supported strengthening antitust laws and ensuring fair market competition by addressing captive supply contracts, mandatory price reporting and packer ownership of cattle. USCA held ongoing meetings with USDA, the commodity futures trading commission, the CME, and other stakeholders to find solutions that would increase transparency and true price discovery in the marketplace. USCA opposed the regionalization of certain regions of south America for the purpose of importing meat as it will allow for the potential introduction of foot and mouth disease within the United States. USCA continues to oppose importation of fresh beef from Brazil due to concerns that the health of the us cattle herd will be put at risk. USCA monitors issues of importance to livestock producers, brings those issues to producers' attention for discussion and review, facilitates discussions between producers and government officials regarding these issues, and helps effect change when producers indicate change is needed on a certain issue. In prior years, USCA submitted a petition for rule making to the USDA food safety inspection service, prompting wh

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
• Program expense ratio: 58.7%; rating input score 59

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings