Mad cows and the UK’s beef industry. British beef is back on European dinner tables. Last week, the European Union lifted the ban it imposed on UK beef exports in 1996 to protect consumers against meat infected with mad cow disease. [News Source]

Mad cow: Are we still unprepared? The discovery this week of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S. is renewing worries that, contrary to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's claim last summer that mad cow "is on its way out," the fatal brain illness may actually be getting a foothold in America. [News Source]

Labs unify health, ag work. At first glance, it seems like a bureaucrat's joke: locating the new Agriculture Department headquarters near the downtown heart of Minnesota's most urban county. [News Source]