1st U.S. beef shipment arrives in SKorea (AP via Yahoo! News) The first shipment of U.S. beef in nearly three years arrived in South Korea on Monday after the country lifted an import ban triggered by fears of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Ministry said. [News Source]

South Korea resumes US beef imports, ending 3-year ban (Channel NewsAsia) SEOUL : South Korea resumed imports of US beef, ending a three-year ban over mad cow disease, officials said. Nine tons of boneless beef from a Kansas-based slaughterhouse arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, for quarantine inspection before sale, the agriculture ministry said. [News Source]

South Korea resumes US beef imports, ending 3-year ban (Servihoo) South Korea resumed imports of US beef, ending a three-year ban over mad cow disease, officials said. Nine tons of boneless beef from a Kansas-based slaughterhouse arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, for quarantine inspection before sale, the agriculture ministry said. [News Source]

U.S. beef arrives in South Korea (AP via Yahoo! News) The first shipment of U.S. beef in nearly three years arrived in South Korea on Monday after the country lifted an import ban triggered by fears of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Ministry said. [News Source]

South Korea resumes US beef imports, ending 3-year ban (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea resumed imports of US beef, ending a three-year ban over mad cow disease, officials said. [News Source]

S. Korea resumes US beef imports, ending 3-year ban (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Monday resumed imports of US beef, ending a three-year ban over mad cow disease, officials said. [News Source]

BSE scare has forced meat industry to look at how it polices itself (The Scotsman: Business) THE perceived threat to human health from BSE, or mad cow disease, has all but faded into the science fiction of white-coated scientists' fantasies of some sort of Armageddon. [News Source]

SKorea to resume US beef imports this wk - Yonhap (Sharewatch) Nine tons of beef from a Kansas-based slaughterhouse will arrive at Incheon International Airport tomorrow and will go on sale after detailed quarantine inspections, South Korea in January agreed partially to lift the ban imposed in December 2003, but the resumption stalled after the discovery of a new US mad cow case in March. [News Source]

South Korea to resume US beef imports (AFP via Yahoo! News) South Korea is to resume imports of US beef this week, ending a ban imposed nearly three years ago over mad cow disease. [News Source]

Rice farmers fear, loathe biotech grains (Contra Costa Times) Fourth-generation farmer Greg Massa was in the middle of the rice harvest and he was dirty, angry and depressed. The price of the gasoline that powers his water pumps and rice harvester had never been more expensive. A late planting season, hot summer and rising expenses had ensured a less-than-stellar harvest, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasting a 13 percent drop compared with [News Source]