Dowker Farm

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September 25 reads 9/25, and that is the whole reason it belongs to Dolly.

She wrote "9 to 5" for the 1980 movie, and it made her a film star. Star Wars got May 4 off a pun, too, and nobody argues about that one.

A county judge in Texas already proclaimed September 25 Dolly Parton Day. It goes before his commissioners on the 17th. His words were that Dolly gave us 9 to 5, so they will honor her on 9/25.

A Tennessee senator filed the same thing statewide. A Pennsylvania lawmaker started collecting co-sponsors this week.

Two petitions are running. Garth and Trisha are even giving away a full day of business.

Five days after she died, three states were already working on it. Some days name themselves.

No cow-calf producer in America is asking for increased imports. Undercutting American farmers and ranchers with products from foreign competitors does nothing to create market confidence or encourage rebuilding the herd.

For the second time in less than 12 months, the Trump Administration is intervening in markets in an attempt to artificially lower beef prices. Current retail prices are high because of strong consumer demand for the high-quality beef we produce.

Incentivizing additional foreign imports undermines America’s producers at a critical time as they make decisions about rebuilding numbers for next year. U.S. farmers and ranchers need stability. Unlike spur-of –the-moment trading decisions made based on White House social media posts, the decisions and investments ranchers make in their herds are made YEARS in advance, not days or weeks.

The Trump Administration's repeated whiplash on trade policy and beef imports has real impacts on cattle producers in rural America. USDA created and promoted a stronger “Product of the USA” label, only to abandon it and decide that MCOOL was the only option. Today’s announcement is not about helping producers. It’s not about putting their finger on the scale for one cattle industry group or another. It is 100% about the 74 days between now and the midterm elections.