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BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
BSE Sanctions Costing U.S. Billions
The sanctions that countries around the world placed on U.S. beef following the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the cattle herd in 2003 -- despite being inconsistent with international standards -- cost U.S. cattle ranchers and beef processors billions of dollars in export losses. ...
Experts Note Progress Against BSE Disease
Overreliance on meaningless testing and a lack of focus on documenting the effectiveness of steps that are making significant inroads against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are hindering a hungry world’s access to protein, driving up food costs and harming local economies as well as the U.S. beef industry...
New Technology Detects Prions for Improved Food Safety
Scientists have created a new device that may provide a faster, easier and more reliable way to test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)....
15 for Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) last month confirmed another case of BSE in a six-year-old beef cow in Alberta. The infected cow, detected...
Italy Reports BSE Case
In a recent article on Reuters, Italy announced its first BSE case in two years...
Jury Still Out in U.K. on BSE-Human Connection
For 12 years, the United Kingdom has been in a media frenzy about a connection between BSE and humans. ...
Slow Pacific-Rim Progress Begs The Question, "Why?"
This week, it was announced that Japan had agreed to discontinue inspections of entire meat shipments from the U.S. Both sides also agreed to speed up and facilitate Japan's inspection of U.S. plants to make implementation follow more quickly...
Korean FTA Is A Critical Crossroads
Get ready to add a new acronym to your vocabulary -- KORUS FTA -- the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. On April 1, at the last possible moment, the U.S. and South Korea reached agreement...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
