Livestock owners urged to microchip animals (KOB-TV Albuquerque) ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - State livestock officials are urging cattlemen and owners of other large livestock to take advantage of a tracking program aimed at helping control such diseases as mad cow disease. [News Source]

Ninth case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA n The United States says it will dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada's latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]

Tyson Sides With USDA On Canada Beef Imports (The Morning News) Wednesday's discovery of Canada's ninth case of mad cow disease has several interested U.S. cattle groups now voicing opposition to the American government's plan to fully resume imports of older Canadian cattle. [News Source]

Sadia Hasn’t Flown the Coop (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Tim Hussar submits: It seems like a short period ago, we were hearing frequent news reports about bird flu reaching another country, a spitting image of the mad cow disease scare, with everybody on high alert. [News Source]

Canadian cattle that lack ID tags enter U.S. (Seattle Times) Hundreds of cattle from Canada, which this month confirmed its ninth case of mad-cow disease, have entered the United States without government-required... [News Source]

Livestock owners urged to microchip ID their animals (Roswell Daily Record) Livestock owners are being urged to take advantage of an origin-tracking program to help control such diseases as “mad cow.” Participation in the program remains voluntary and free. [News Source]

9th case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (AG Weekly) OTTAWA (AP) — The United States said Thursday it would dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada’s latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]