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Pig disease kills 40 in China
A pig-borne disease has claimed a 40th life in China, and the first in southern Guangdong province, officials said on Tuesday, days after the government said it had brought the disease under control elsewhere.
Human swine disease in Hong Kong
One more Hong Kong resident has contracted a pig-borne disease that has killed nearly 40 people in southeastern China, the city's Health Department said Tuesday.
Japanese beef at highest price since first U.S. BSE case
The retail price of Japanese beef rose to its highest level since the discovery of the first U.S. case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in December 2003.
Americas
Canada violates U.S. mad cow rules, ships adult cow
Canadian animal health inspectors accidentally approved the export of a 31-month-old cow to the United States, violating strict U.S. safeguards to prevent mad cow disease, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said.
Europe
UK pig herd decline continues
In 2001, there were 547,000 head. That means over the past four years numbers have fallen by 16%.
USA
Cargill Q4 earnings up 18%
Cargill August 23 reported net earnings of $230 million for the 2005 fourth quarter ended May 31, up 18 percent from $195 million in the same period a year ago.
Beef recalled under mad cow rules
Beef banned under mad cow disease rules was shipped to wholesalers in a half-dozen states and is now being recalled by a Wisconsin beef plant.
NCBA blasts plan to reopen market to Japanese beef
Jim McAdams, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said NCBA will not support the proposed rule that the U.S. Department of Agriculture published late last week in the Federal Register that would reopen the U.S. market to boneless cuts of Japanese beef.
Drought causes headaches for Kentucky cattle producers
The drought could force some producers to cull herds to compensate for short hay supplies.
U.S. group against lifting import ban on Japan beef
A U.S. livestock industry group said Friday it opposes a government plan to ease a four-year import ban on Japanese beef because of mad cow disease unless Japan simultaneously lifts its ban on American beef.
Pig disease kills 40 in China
A pig-borne disease has claimed a 40th life in China, and the first in southern Guangdong province, officials said on Tuesday, days after the government said it had brought the disease under control elsewhere.
Human swine disease in Hong Kong
One more Hong Kong resident has contracted a pig-borne disease that has killed nearly 40 people in southeastern China, the city's Health Department said Tuesday.
Japanese beef at highest price since first U.S. BSE case
The retail price of Japanese beef rose to its highest level since the discovery of the first U.S. case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in December 2003.
Americas
Canada violates U.S. mad cow rules, ships adult cow
Canadian animal health inspectors accidentally approved the export of a 31-month-old cow to the United States, violating strict U.S. safeguards to prevent mad cow disease, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said.
Europe
UK pig herd decline continues
In 2001, there were 547,000 head. That means over the past four years numbers have fallen by 16%.
USA
Cargill Q4 earnings up 18%
Cargill August 23 reported net earnings of $230 million for the 2005 fourth quarter ended May 31, up 18 percent from $195 million in the same period a year ago.
Beef recalled under mad cow rules
Beef banned under mad cow disease rules was shipped to wholesalers in a half-dozen states and is now being recalled by a Wisconsin beef plant.
NCBA blasts plan to reopen market to Japanese beef
Jim McAdams, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said NCBA will not support the proposed rule that the U.S. Department of Agriculture published late last week in the Federal Register that would reopen the U.S. market to boneless cuts of Japanese beef.
Drought causes headaches for Kentucky cattle producers
The drought could force some producers to cull herds to compensate for short hay supplies.
U.S. group against lifting import ban on Japan beef
A U.S. livestock industry group said Friday it opposes a government plan to ease a four-year import ban on Japanese beef because of mad cow disease unless Japan simultaneously lifts its ban on American beef.