USDA eases rules on bovine imports from Canada (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. Agriculture Department proposed on Wednesday to allow imports of Canadian poultry and pork processed at plants that also handle cattle, in a sign of declining fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

USDA eases rules on bovine imports from Canada (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. Agriculture Department proposed on Wednesday to allow imports of Canadian poultry and pork processed at plants that also handle cattle, in a sign of declining fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

USDA eases rules on bovine imports from Canada (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. Agriculture Department proposed on Wednesday to allow imports of Canadian poultry and pork processed at plants that also handle cattle, in a sign of declining fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Canada can’t locate birth farm of sixth mad cow case (Vancouver Province) WINNIPEG, Manitoba - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Tuesday it could not confirm the birth farm of Canada's sixth mad cow case since 2003 due to a lack of information on the animal's history. [News Source]

US ranchers fear disease from Mexican border-crossing cattle (AFP via Yahoo! News) Mexican free-range cattle wandering across the border into the United States could be ill with tuberculosis, hoof and mouth disease or mad-cow disease and infect US herds, ranchers in the border state of Arizona say. [News Source]