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AAVMC Works Toward Strategic Plan
(5-9-08)
Canada Confirms Bovine Tuberculosis in Manitoba
(5-8-08)
Scrapie Prions Detected
in Blood
(5-8-08)
South Korea May Demand Revision of U.S. Beef Import Pact
(5-8-08)
Statement by Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer on Congress'
Announcement of a New Farm Bill
(5-8-08)
AFBF: Food Fix Needs to be Comprehensive
(5-7-08)
EU Will
Probably Lift U.S. Poultry Ban
(5-7-08)
Highly Contagious Swine Virus
Found at Michigan Ranch
(5-7-08)
Jockey Caught With Electrical Device
(5-7-08)
KHRA Responds to Eight Belles Incident
(5-7-08)
Lawmakers Debate Animal Virus Research
(5-7-08)
Media
Statement: In Response to Video Released by the Humane Society
of the U.S.
(5-7-08)
New Research into Mad Cow-linked Prions Reveals Silver Lining
(5-7-08)
PETA
Demonstrates; Could Pursue Charges
(5-7-08)
Russia Allows For Importation Of
U.S. Livestock
(5-7-08)
Statement by USDA Secretary Ed Schafer on HSUS Animal Cruelty Video
(5-7-08)
Statement by LMA President Jim Santomaso, Concerning Reports the
Human Society of the U.S. Found Improper Livestock Handling at Some
Livestock Markets
(5-7-08)
Animal Rights Group Uses Undercover Video to Push for Probe of
Poultry Firm
(5-6-08)
Candidates Join Calls for Ethanol Reform
(5-5-08)
Minnesota Cattle Update: Governor
Pawlenty Signs TB Legislation Into Law
(5-5-08)
South Korean Officials Perform Damage Control
(5-5-08)
Statement of Dr. Richard
Raymond, USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety Regarding the Safety of
the U.S. Food Supply
(5-4-08)
Bird Flu Spreading in South Korea, Officials Say
(5-3-08)
Congress Holds First Hearing on Soaring Food Prices
(5-2-08)
Congress Seeks Two-week Farm Bill Extension
(5-2-08)
Foreign
Animal Disease Preparedness "Table Top" Exercise
(5-2-08)
Senators Kill Packer Ban Once and For All
(5-2-08)
South Korea Rejects Calls to Shut Door to US Beef
(5-2-08)
Treatment of Farm Animals will go to Voters
(5-2-08)
Tyson Appeal Denied in Antibiotic Case
(5-2-08)
USDA and DHS Advocate "Success Through Partnership" in Global Battle
to Protect American Agriculture
(5-2-08)
AMI Launches Updated COOL Web Site
(5-1-08)
Animal Ag Alliance Takes Issue with Pew Commission Report
(5-1-08)
National Beef Appeals Alleged Humane Handling Violation
(5-1-08)
New Study Calls U.S. Meat Inspection Practices Outdated
(5-1-08)
Oil More to Blame Than Ethanol for Food Prices
(5-1-08)
Senate Subcommittee to Scrutinize JBS' Pending Acquisitions
(5-1-08)
Students Trained in Agrisecurity
(5-1-08)
USDA Agrees to Help Pork Producers
(5-1-08)
Wall Street Detectives and Texas A&M Offer New Equine DNA CODIS:
This Year a Historical Event Occurred in the Horse World -- a CODIS
Identification System for Horses
(5-1-08)
APRIL
Bovine Intervention - Resistance Is Spreading
(4-30-08)
Bush: Ethanol Not To Blame for Food Prices
(4-30-08)
Bush Rejects Latest House-Senate Farm Bill Deal
(4-30-08)
Doubts Grow Over Ethanol
(4-30-08)
Livestock Lobby Meddled in Study, Authors Say
(4-30-08)
Report Slams U.S. Food Safety System
(4-30-08)
China Suffers HFMD Outbreak
(4-29-08)
Final Pew Report Seeks Ban on
Non-therapeutics
(4-29-08)
McCain Eyes Voting ‘No’ on the
Farm Bill
(4-29-08)
Minnesota Senate Passes Bill to
Fund TB Eradication Effort
(4-29-08)
National Institute for Animal Agriculture Annual
Meeting Coverage Now Online
(4-29-08)
South Korean
Panel To Mull U.S. Beef Deal
(4-29-08)
Study Shows 7.3 Million U.S.
Vegetarians
(4-29-08)
USDA Isn't on Board with Beef Industry's Downer Cow Ban
(4-29-08)
USDA Says
Russia Delists Four US Pork Plants
(4-29-08)
Economists: Hog Producers Still
Reducing Herds
(4-28-08)
Ethanol Part of Food Crisis, says
Durbin
(4-28-08)
Japan's
Largest Retailer Resumes U.S. Beef Sales
(4-28-08)
Texas Governor Requests
Ethanol-mandate Relief
(4-28-08)
Tyson CEO Bond Calls For End To
Ethanol Subsidies
(4-28-08)
Animal Welfare Needs Paradigm Shifts: Debalkanization, Engagement
(4-25-08)
Canada, Korea Working Toward Beef
Deal: Report
(4-25-08)
FDA Amends Feed Rules
(4-25-08)
JBS Receives Approval for
Australian Acquisition
(4-24-08)
Swine Veterinarians Take Stock of Strengths, Challenges
(4-24-08)
Board OKs Plan for CWD Management
(4-24-08)
Farm Income Up, but Subsidies Stay
(4-24-08)
Idaho's Craig Blocks Two-week Farm
Bill Extension
(4-24-08)
Japan Says It
Won't Ban U.S. Beef Following Latest Shipping Blunder
(4-24-08)
Vegetarians Not Hurting Beef
Demand
(4-24-08)
Bush Blasts Farm Bill Proposals,
Calls for One-year Extension
(4-23-08)
Close, but no Cigar, on Farm Bill
Funding Yet
(4-23-08)
Dr. Tammy Beckham Named Director
of Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
(4-23-08)
Final Feed Rule Made Public
(4-23-08)
Japan Says Banned Spinal Column
Found in US Beef Shipment
(4-23-08)
New Source for Biofuels Discovered
(4-23-08)
NPPC Sends USDA an SOS
(4-23-08)
MCOOL Continues to Disrupt Hog Trade
(4-23-08)
American Meat
Institute Files Citizen Petition to Keep All Non-ambulatory Cattle
out of Food Supply
(4-22-08)
California Department of Health
Provides Additional Information for Meat and Poultry Recalls
(4-22-08)
Every Day is Earth Day for Pork
Producers
(4-22-08)
FBI Agent
Urges Food Safety Vigilance
(4-22-08)
Grassley: Current Safety Net
Provisions not Enough
(4-22-08)
North Korea to Ban South Korean
Poultry, Eggs as Bird Flu Precaution
(4-22-08)
R-CALF: Cattle
Producers Reiterate Farm Bill Priorities
(4-22-08)
R-CALF USA Applauds Missouri
Attorney General
(4-22-08)
Record Conference in the Name of
Welfare
(4-22-08)
Tyson Barred from Making
Antibiotic-free Claim
(4-22-08)
APHIS: Statement By John Clifford
On Detection Of MCF In Commercial Cattle
(4-21-08)
Australia Says Can Keep Big Share
of Korea Beef Market
(4-21-08)
Bush Signs Another Farm Bill
Extension
(4-21-08)
Can The Earth Provide Enough Food
for 9 Billion People?
(4-21-08)
Cattle Raisers to Receive
Subsidies
(4-21-08)
Chinese Pork Prices to Stay Fat
Well Into Summer
(4-21-08)
OIE Looks into Veterinary
Education
(4-21-08)
Swine Genetics Company Chooses
Campbell County
(4-21-08)
USDA GIPSA Reopening Comment
Period on Scales and Weighing Regulations Proposal
(4-21-08)
Vaccination
Guidelines
(4-21-08)
Vetterkind
Cattle: Good Cash Market, Spring Beef Demand Kicks In
(4-21-08)
Medical and
Surgical Treatment of Uveitis
(4-19-08)
115 Arrested at Poultry Plant
(4-18-08)
GlobalVetLink Electronic Signature Advancement Approved by USDA
(4-18-08)
Jolley: Five
Minutes With Neil Hammerschmidt
(4-18-08)
Korea to Ease
U.S. Beef Curbs, Resume Imports in May
(4-18-08)
Murray State Horses Exposed to
Virus
(4-18-08)
Purdue and CDC Researchers Working
on Bird Flu Vaccine
(4-18-08)
Statement by Agriculture Secretary
Ed Schafer on South Korea Reopening Market to U.S. Beef and Beef
Products in Line with International Standards
(4-18-08)
Testing Shows Brucellosis in Park
County Elk
(4-18-08)
Wildebeest Virus Kills 2 cows, 1
in Louisiana
(4-18-08)
AMI Launches New YouTube Channel
“Meat News Network"
(4-17-08)
Connor Unimpressed by Senate Farm
Bill Extension
(4-17-08)
Fever Tick Quarantine Enlarged in Starr County; Reduced in Dimmit
County
(4-17-08)
RFA: Ethanol Reduces Food/Fuel
Prices
(4-17-08)
Seoul Tentatively Agrees to Resume
US Beef Imports
(4-17-08)
UMKC Research May Help Farmers
Control Deadly Livestock Disease
(4-17-08)
Canadian VMA Monitoring Euthanasia
Crisis
(4-16-08)
Culling Canadian Breeding Swine
(4-16-08)
Farm Bill Extension in Doubt,
Talks Stumbling
(4-16-08)
Nearly 300 Arrested in Immigration
Raids at Poultry Plants
(4-16-08)
Prominent State Vet Applauds NAIS
Shift to Animal Health
(4-16-08)
White House Sitting on Mad Cow
Rule
(4-16-08)
USDA Implements Key Strategy From
National Animal Identification System Business Plan
(4-15-08)
Bird Flu Spreads, Takes New
Pattern
(4-14-08)
Canada Wants U.S. to End COOL
Uncertainty
(4-14-08)
Legislators
Introduce Food Safety Recall Bill
(4-14-08)
Rules Eased for Fair Exhibitors’
ID
(4-14-08)
S.
Korean Government Pushing for Resolution of U.S. Beef Import
Standoff
(4-13-08)
Accidents at Disease Lab
Acknowledged
(4-12-08)
Dangerous Animal Virus on US
Mainland?
(4-11-08)
Expansion in Meat Export Markets
(4-11-08)
Tomato Tracker a Start to Enhance
Food Safety
(4-11-08)
World's Top Vet Champions Animal
ID
(4-11-08)
Animal Welfare Initiative on
California Ballot
(4-10-08)
Chile Approves Imports of US
Poultry
(4-10-08)
Equine Abuse
Investigation Seminar Planned
(4-10-08)
Farm Bill Stumbles; Senate Needs
$10 Billion
(4-10-08)
Missouri Groups Want more Funding
for Animal Health
(4-10-08)
New York Times Editorial: Biofuels
Production Contributing To World Food Crisis
(4-10-08)
Statement by Secretary Schafer on
Speaker Pelosi's Actions to Push a change to Trade Promotion
Authority for the Colombia Free Trade Agreement
(4-10-08)
As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn
Conservation Program
(4-9-08)
EU Finally Agrees Bluetongue
Import Restrictions
(4-9-08)
Illinois House
Passes Equine Transport Bill
(4-9-08)
Lawmaker Calls for New USDA
Approach on Animal ID
(4-9-08)
Pelosi Moves
to Delay Colombia Free Trade Vote
(4-9-08)
Schafer's First Two Months in
Office as US Secretary of Agriculture
(4-9-08)
State Agriculture Director Names Wood County Resident Assistant
State Veterinarian
(4-9-08)
USDA Finds Violations in
Slaughterhouses
(4-9-08)
AFBF Urges Help for Pork Producers
(4-8-08)
Biofuels Policies Cost Poultry,
Livestock and Ethanol Industries Billions, Study Says
(4-8-08)
Chinese Son Likely Gave Bird Flu
to Father: Report
(4-8-08)
Downer Animal Measure Advances in
California Assembly
(4-8-08)
Europe Develops New Technologies
to Boost Health of Livestock
(4-8-08)
Lawmakers Hope to Remedy Rural Vet
Shortage
(4-8-08)
Sen. Kohl questions Agriculture
Dept. efforts on meat inspections
(4-8-08)
New Strain of Equine Flu in Europe
(4-7-08)
No Quick End for Cloning Product
Moratorium: USDA
(4-7-08)
Pork Barrel Remains Hidden in U.S.
Budget
(4-7-08)
President Bush Sends Colombia FTA
to Congress
(4-7-08)
Statement by the Secretary on the
Colombia Free Trade Agreement
(4-7-08)
Two Die in Spain from Human
Variant of Mad Cow Disease
(4-7-08)
Four More Deer Test Positive for
CWD
(4-5-08)
Nebraska Producer Sees Value in
NIAA
(4-4-08)
Ohio Department of Agriculture Receives First-Ever U.S. Patent
(4-4-08)
Advanced ID Announces Breakthrough in China for RFID Tire Tag
(4-3-08)
Justice Official Says Industry
Concentration not Enough to Reject JBS Purchases
(4-3-08)
Lawmakers Differ on Farm Bill
Financing
(4-3-08)
Minnesota Names Coordinator,
Starts Website for Bovine Tuberculosis
(4-3-08)
Quarantined Cattle to be Destroyed
(4-3-08)
Report Faults Bison Slaughter Program
(4-3-08)
Site-selection Process for Lab to be Discussed
(4-3-08)
State Veterinarian Retiring July 31
(4-3-08)
USDA IDs New Benefits of Animal ID
System
(4-3-08)
USDA Ups Bovine TB-eradication
Funding by almost $17 Million
(4-3-08)
IMI Global
Becomes Exclusive Worldwide Marketing Partner For The “Born & Raised
In The USA®” Label
(4-2-08)
Japan to Study Safety of Cloned
Animals for Food
(4-2-08)
MPR: State
Approves Cattle Buyout To Contain Bovine TB
(4-2-08)
U.S. Not Only Hog Industry Facing
Challenges
(4-2-08)
AMI
Lashes Back on USDA Expanding Adulterated Meat Rules
(4-1-08)
Ohio
Firm Mislabels 1,420 Pounds of Chicken
(4-1-08)
R-CALF: Cattle Producers Request
APHIS To Withdraw Fever Tick Rule
(4-1-08)
Secretary Schafer Stands by Voluntary NAIS
(4-1-08)
South
Korean Ambassador Promises Quick end to Beef Ban
(4-1-08)
'VeriPrime Certified Safeguards' Food Safety Label Unveiled
(4-1-08)
MARCH
AMI
Tells Ag Secretary It Opposes Expansion of FSIS E. coli
Policy
(3-31-08)
HSUS Soring Hotline Heats Up
(3-31-08)
Lawmaker Wants College Incentives for Livestock Vets
(3-31-08)
SDSU Researchers Work Toward
Next-generation PRRS Vaccine
(3-31-08)
UWP
Student Researches Cure for Johne's Disease
(3-31-08)
Statewide Kansas Chronic Wasting Disease Sampling Completed
Mexico Lifts the Ban on U.S. Breeding Cattle
(3-30-08)
DNR
Announces Changes in Battle Against Bovine TB
(3-29-08)
Market for Mare Milk Gives Rise to
Equine Dairy Industry
(3-29-08)
Bluetongue Fears Grow in Britain
(3-28-08)
February Poultry Production up 9% from 2007
(3-28-08)
National Dairy Producer Johne's Survey
(3-28-08)
National Lab Director Named Sole Finalist to Head Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
(3-28-08)
State
to Issue Bonds to Help Secure Federal Bio-Security Lab
(3-28-08)
U.S.
Hog and Pig Inventory Up 7% on the Year
(3-28-08)
USDA Extends Comment Period on
Proposal to Amend Regulations Covering Temperature Requirements for
Live Animals in Transport
(3-28-08)
USDA
May Broaden Scope of Meats Deemed Adulterated by E. coli
(3-28-08)
Animal Health Board Says Vet can
Dispose of Feral Pigs
(3-27-08)
Equine Flu Jumped to Dogs 9 years
ago - Study
(3-27-08)
United States, Mexico and Canada
Announce OIE Consistent Trade Standards for Cattle, Furthering
Progress for NAFTA Partners
(3-27-08)
Beef Producers Among Bloc Urging
Feds to Block JBS Deals
(3-26-08)
Merial Joins AQHA As An Official
Animal Health Care Partner
(3-26-08)
New Porcine Circovirus Web Site
Available
(3-26-08)
Report Dubs Humane Slaughter 'Low
Priority' in U.S. Meat Industry
(3-26-08)
DHS Proposes Safe Harbor Steps on
No-Match Rules
(3-24-08)
Hallmark/Westland Worker Pleads
Guilty, gets Six Months
(3-24-08)
Nebraska Ag Groups Square-off Over
Corporate Farming Law
(3-24-08)
Sausage-maker Shuttered for
Selling Poached Meat
(3-24-08)
Got Raw Milk?
(3-23-08)
New Antiviral Drug to fight Equine
Herpes Virus
(3-23-08)
College of Ag
Receives Major Grant to Study Cattle's Johne's Disease
(3-21-08)
Equine Encephalitis Strikes Early
(3-21-08)
Jolley: Five Minutes With Dr.
Robert Fourdraine
(3-21-08)
Senators Wary of USDA Move to Ease
Ban on Beef Imports From Argentina
(3-21-08)
Speakers on Equine Wellbeing Selected for Kentucky Summit
(3-21-08)
Cattle on Feed up 2% on the Year
(3-20-08)
Illinois Horsemen's Council Urges
Support of Amendment
(3-20-08)
Australia's Horse Industry Open
for International Trade
(3-20-08)
Monitoring Cruelty: Online Database
Tracks Cases
(3-20-08)
USDA Renews Funding Commitment for
Johne's Disease Coordinated Agriculture Project
(3-20-08)
Vetterkind
Cattle: Beef Demand Will Keep Cash Market From Free Fall
(3-20-08)
USDA Sees Challenges for Egg,
Beef, Pork Sectors
(3-20-08)
Brownfield:
Farm Bill Extension Not President's Preferred Outcome
(3-19-08)
Livestock Producers Prepare for
COOL
(3-19-08)
Not School: Japanese Meatpacker
Attempts to Feed Local Students Falsely Labeled Beef
(3-19-08)
Pfizer Snaps up Two Livestock
Genomics Companies
(3-19-08)
Quebec Flock Culled for Scrapie
(3-19-08)
Senator Introduces Legislation
That Would Stiffen Penalties For Slaughter Facilities Processing
Downed Animals Of All Species
(3-19-08)
Staph Superbug Found in Retail
Pork Products
(3-19-08)
Action Plans Released by Summit Members
(3-18-08)
California Joins States in
International Cattle Trade Dispute
(3-18-08)
Congress Urged to Renew User Fees
for FDA Review of Animal Drugs
(3-18-08)
First Priority
Would be to Stop FMD from Spreading
(3-18-08)
Gene Study Suggests China Source
of H5N1 Virus
(3-18-08)
Pfizer Animal Health to Acquire
Catapult Genetics and Bovigen
(3-18-08)
Secretary Schafer to Address NIAA Annual Meeting Attendees
(3-18-08)
USDA Awards $5 Million in Air Quality Grants
(3-18-08)
USDA
Recognizes West Virginia For Premise Identification Progress
(3-18-08)
Bear Stearns Collapse Shou
