Asia PacificRecord ExportsAustralian beef exports to Korea rise in anticipati...

Asia Pacific

Record Exports
Australian beef exports to Korea rise in anticipation of the Korean New Year celebrations.

Europe

Identity Question
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development responds to criticism on sheep identification.

Fears over jobs at meat processor
Workers fear that hundreds of jobs could be lost at a meat processing company in Northern Ireland.

Americas

End of U.S. ban on Canadian cattle expected to benefit Canadian hog prices
Sask Pork predicts the planned reopening of the U.S. border to the movement of live Canadian cattle will be positive for all sectors of the livestock industry.

More than 100 cattle die in Alberta feedlot
An erroneous feed mixture and extremely cold weather contributed to the death of 150 head of cattle at a feedlot in Edmonton, Alberta.

Canadian BSE probe suggests 38 cattle at risk
Investigators of Canada's second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have determined that 38 cattle might have been exposed to the same feed as the infected cow and that one of those was exported to the United States.

USA

Veneman: Canadian border will open, Japan 'stonewalling'
In what may have been her last appearance as Secretary of Agriculture, Ann Veneman, speaking at the American Farm Bureau Federation conference on Sunday, vowed that the Canadian border would reopen as scheduled on March 7 and accused the Japanese Agriculture Ministry of "stonewalling" after promising to reopen its border to American beef.

Companies extend swine vaccine research collaboration
A ten-year research partnership that has focused on swine disease and vaccine research and development, has been extended through 2010.

Cattlemen's group sues over USDA plans
A cattlemen's group sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday to stop it from allowing live cattle and expanded beef imports from Canada, which confirmed a new case of mad cow disease this month.

Asia Pacific

Record Exports
Australian beef exports to Korea rise in anticipation of the Korean New Year celebrations.

Europe

Identity Question
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development responds to criticism on sheep identification.

Fears over jobs at meat processor
Workers fear that hundreds of jobs could be lost at a meat processing company in Northern Ireland.

Americas

End of U.S. ban on Canadian cattle expected to benefit Canadian hog prices
Sask Pork predicts the planned reopening of the U.S. border to the movement of live Canadian cattle will be positive for all sectors of the livestock industry.

More than 100 cattle die in Alberta feedlot
An erroneous feed mixture and extremely cold weather contributed to the death of 150 head of cattle at a feedlot in Edmonton, Alberta.

Canadian BSE probe suggests 38 cattle at risk
Investigators of Canada's second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have determined that 38 cattle might have been exposed to the same feed as the infected cow and that one of those was exported to the United States.

USA

Veneman: Canadian border will open, Japan 'stonewalling'
In what may have been her last appearance as Secretary of Agriculture, Ann Veneman, speaking at the American Farm Bureau Federation conference on Sunday, vowed that the Canadian border would reopen as scheduled on March 7 and accused the Japanese Agriculture Ministry of "stonewalling" after promising to reopen its border to American beef.

Companies extend swine vaccine research collaboration
A ten-year research partnership that has focused on swine disease and vaccine research and development, has been extended through 2010.

Cattlemen's group sues over USDA plans
A cattlemen's group sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday to stop it from allowing live cattle and expanded beef imports from Canada, which confirmed a new case of mad cow disease this month.