Appeals court rules judge erred in keeping Canadian cattle out after mad cow scare
US - A federal judge overstated the potential harm of allowing limited shipments of Canadian cattle into the United States after mad cow disease was found in Canada, an appeals court panel concluded in documents released Monday. Source: azcent...

Farmers more concerned about dry conditions than BSE
US - Market prices for cattle are strong despite drought situations in parts of Texas and the announcement June 29 that a Texas cow had tested positive for BSE. “Everybody is very concerned about the drought going on. That’s the topic of conversation...

Lessons from the great beef war
US - The reopening of the American border to live Canadian cattle may be good news for some in Canada, but it begs the question — what have we learned from this entire process? Have we finally learned that American interests can pretty much do what...

Penn State scientists say BSE testing not perfect, but effective
US - As the U.S. Department of Agriculture investigates the origins of a recently confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow disease" in Texas - the second case discovered on American soil * some observers have raised questions about...

U.S. government seeks to overturn court ban on Canadian cattle imports
US - A U.S. government lawyer slammed an American ranching group Wednesday for using questionable scientific reasoning to justify a continued ban on Canadian cattle imports. "Their risk assessment assumes everything goes wrong," Mark Stern, acting for...

Jolley: Harkin hits Johanns on the BSE issue
US - As the politics behind BSE continue to grow and fester, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, posed four questions in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. Harkin’s good friend Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minnesota, wants to take it a step farther. He’s...

USDA and HHS Urged to Strengthen BSE Protections
US - R-CALF USA today sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt urging the agency leaders to immediately strengthen U.S. protection measures against bovine spongiform encephalopathy...

Possible New Case Of Mad Cow Disease Discovered
Washington D.C. - According to the Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns there could be a second case of mad cow disease in the U.S. Source: All Headline News

US To Reach Regional BSE Survey Goals By End July
WASHINGTON - -The U.S. Department of Agriculture is on track to reach all of its regional testing goals throughout the U.S. for bovine spongiform encephalopathy by the end of July, a senior U.S. government official said Tuesday. Source: Catt...

Feds want to test former herd mates of infected cow
US - The federal government is looking for some former herd mates of a Texas cow infected with "mad cow" disease, planning to test them for the fatal brain-wasting disease. Source: Sacramento Bee

China works with US to reopen beef trade
WASHINGTON - China has promised to work with the US Department of Agriculture toward reopening its market for American beef, US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said on Monday. China agreed to send a technical team to the United States in October,...

Agriculture Department Lifts Hold From Texas Ranch
US - A hold was removed Monday from the Texas ranch that housed a cow infected with mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Source: The Dallas Morning News

All cows from herd with one mad cow test negative
US - Thirty-eight more cattle from a Texas ranch tested negative for mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported today. The 38 animals were from the same ranch and herd as the Texas beef cow recently confirmed to have mad cow disease....

USDA bungles mad cow case
US - If you've seen grim videos from the British countryside showing a cow in the final stages of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, it's a safe bet you want nothing to do with mad cow disease. The animals can't stay upright, but they continue to try....

USDA culls 29 cattle linked to mad cow animal
US - U.S. animal health officials have tracked down and culled 29 cattle linked to a 12-year-old Texas beef cow infected with mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Friday. Since the discovery of the nation's second case of the bovine spongiform...

Panama bans American beef
US - Government officials in Panama have banned the importation of U.S. beef, according to the Associated Press. The development comes after the second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was confirmed in the U.S. last month. Source: Brow...

Editorial: USDA mishandling mad cow scare
US - Incompetence and deceit are a fatal mix for a government agency trying to win public trust. So when the U.S. Department of Agriculture botched a mad cow test on an infected animal and then delayed a search for the truth, it harmed its reputation...

Cattle markets drift lower as BSE testing progresses
US - Not one, but a half-dozen additional bovine spongiform encephalopathy tests were ordered this past week to look at brain tissue of an older cow that on June 10 retested positive. It’s the first native-born BSE case in the United States. No reports...

US officials don't expect more mad cow cases
US - After the first discovery of mad cow in the United States in 2003, some 700 head of cattle were killed as a precaution. Fears were high that Washington state's cattle market would crater. Federal government experts suggested the industry nationwide...

Mad Cow Proposals Lead to Fight
US - In the wake of confirmation that a U.S.-reared animal had mad cow disease, California cattle ranchers and grocers are battling consumer, health and labor groups over legislation aimed at allaying fears about tainted meat. One lawmaker wants to...