U.S. Beef Imports to Resume in June (donga.com) It seems that the import of the U.S. beef will restart from the end of June. It has been two-and-a-half years since an embargo was put on the imports of U.S. beef in December of 2003 after a cow infected with mad cow disease was found. [News Source]

Illegal imports threaten agricultural health sectors. Not only do they debilitate the impact of legal imports in Jamaica, but they pose a serious health risk. [News Source]

B.C. farm incomes plunged 70 percent last year. Soaring energy prices were biggest factor, according to Statistics Canada. [News Source]

S.Korea to resume US beef imports on June 7. Only meat processed in facilities deemed by the South Korean government as safe will be allowed to enter the country. [News Source]

S.Korea to resume US beef imports on June 7 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) South Korea will resume U.S. beef imports on June 7 after it announces a list of approved beef processing facilities in the United States, an agriculture ministry official said on Monday. [News Source]

S. Korea to resume US beef imports on June 7 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) South Korea will resume U.S. beef imports on June 7 after it announces a list of approved beef processing facilities in the United States, an agriculture ministry official said on Monday. [News Source]

Veterinary schools a bottleneck (Baltimore Sun) Field aids human health, but colleges lack openings The catastrophic injury that ended Barbaro's Triple Crown bid at Pimlico on May 20 - and the extraordinary effort by University of Pennsylvania surgeons to save him - have turned a spotlight on veterinary medicine in the United States. [News Source]

Some ranchers shy on first day since mad cow announcement (AG Weekly) TULIA, Texas -- West Texas rancher Kevin Crooks lost about $1 million in the year following the country's first case of mad cow 18 months ago. If he'd had cattle big enough to sell at the Tulia Livestock Auction on Monday, he wouldn't have brought a one. [News Source]