Estonia finds first case of mad cow disease (AlertNet) TALLINN, April 24 (Reuters) - Estonian authorities have detected mad cow disease in a dead 11-year-old cow after a routine test at a slaughterhouse, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday. [News Source]

Farming’s true enemy. Calls for a halt to factory farming - from small farmers, community groups, and environmental or animal-protection groups - threaten nothing but the profits of a few large corporate farms. [News Source]

Anthrax alert after farm deaths. Wales was on anthrax-watch last night after it was confirmed the deadly disease had been found on a farm. [News Source]

No Bar Code. An evangelical Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road. [News Source]

Program tracks farms, animals. Maryland State Veterinarian Guy Hohenhaus says that the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) needs to be implemented. Not everyone agrees. [News Source]

New program aims to improve cattle tracking. Implanting electronic tracking devices into livestock may sound like the premise for a bizarre sci-fi movie, but for Idaho beef producers, it may be just around the corner. [News Source]

Ambitious livestock tracking effort continue. The federal government has said it wants to be able to trace livestock movements from birth to slaughter by 2009, but some Western states are unsure if they can meet the deadline. [News Source]

A primer for pandemics. A few times each year, the world is reminded that a pandemic threat is immanent. In 2003, it was SARS. Today, it is a potential avian virus similar to the one that killed 30 million people after 1914. [News Source]