Economic Statistics (Canadian Business) November 25, 2006 - 2:29 p.m. -Farm profits decline. Canadian farmers made their smallest real profits since 2003 last year as they came off two years or more of drought and mad-cow-related trade restrictions. [News Source]

South Korea to suspend imports from Kansas slaughterhouse. South Korea said today it would suspend imports of U.S. beef from a Kansas slaughterhouse after government inspectors found a tiny piece of bone in a shipment. [News Source]

Spain hopes to eliminate mad cow disease by 2010. Spain hopes to eliminate mad cow disease from the country by 2010, the country's top veterinary officer said Friday. [News Source]

Russian watchdog denies mad cow outbreak in southern province (Russian Information Agency Novosti) MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service, Rosselkhoznadzor, dismissed reports Saturday about an outbreak of the mad cow disease, otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in one of the country's southern provinces. [News Source]

S. Korea bans Ky.-raised beef (Louisville Courier-Journal) South Korea said yesterday it would suspend beef imports from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, whose cattle are raised in Campbellsburg, Ky., after a tiny piece of bone was found in a shipment -- a violation of a mad-cow-disease agreement. [News Source]

Farming profits take dip (Calgary Sun) OTTAWA -- Canadian farmers made their smallest profits since 2003 last year as they came off two years or more of drought and mad-cow-related trade restrictions. [News Source]

Little bone, big problem (The Wichita Eagle) Chip leads S. Korea to reject Ark City shipment South Korea, the third-largest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, rejected the first shipment of the meat to arrive since lifting a three-year ban imposed on mad cow fears, saying it found a bone fragment that violated an agreement. [News Source]