U.S. Plans to Ease Mad-Cow Limits on Canada Cattle (Update4) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it plans to lift most of the remaining import restrictions on beef and cattle from Canada after finding that the animals pose ``minimal risk'' for mad-cow disease. [News Source]

U.S. Plans to Ease Mad-Cow Limits on Canada Cattle (Update3) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it plans to lift most of the remaining import restrictions on beef and cattle from Canada after finding that the animals pose ``minimal risk'' for mad-cow disease. [News Source]

USDA Plans to Ease Mad-Cow Limits on Canada Cattle (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. plans to accept imports of Canadian cattle born after March 1999 and beef from animals of any age, lifting most of the remaining restrictions imposed in 2003 when Canada found its first case of mad-cow disease. [News Source]

USDA Plans to Ease Mad-Cow Restrictions on Canada Cattle, Beef (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it plans to ease mad-cow disease-related import restrictions to let Canada ship cattle born after March 1, 1999, and meat from the older animals. [News Source]

Go green, farmer Giles. The trend to organic food and farmers' markets will continue. The result is that Britain will end up producing less, but better, food. [News Source]

Groups aim to shut down captive elk-ranching industry. The unlikely bedfellows of animal-rights and hunting groups again are taking a collective run at closing Oregon's captive elk-ranching industry over fears the exotic herds threaten wild elk populations. [News Source]

South Korea outrivals US, Japan in mad cow research. A team of researchers from the United States and Japan surprised the world this week by announcing that they had created a dozen cows resistant to mad cow disease, but they weren't the first. [News Source]