U.S. gov’t must allow blanket testing for BSE, court rules (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ The U.S. Department of Agriculture must allow meatpackers to test all their cattle for mad cow disease in line with safety assurances sought by Japanese and other customers, according to a recent ruling by a federal district court. [News Source]

KOREA’S U.S. PORK IMPORT LEAPS DURING BEEF IMPORT BAN (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Trade / foreign investment South Korea's import of American pork more than doubled over the past three years when beef products were banned due to the mad cow disease scare, a tally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed Monday. [News Source]

Korea’s U.S. Pork Import Leaps During Beef Import Ban (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) South Korea's import of American pork more than doubled over the past three years when beef products were banned due to the mad cow disease scare, a tally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed Monday. [News Source]

GeneThera in Preliminary Talks for Mad Cow Testing (RedNova) GeneThera, Inc. (OTCBB: GTHA) announced today it has begun preliminary talks with ranchers to test their cattle for the Mad Cow disease. Commenting on the talks Dr. [News Source]

GeneThera ready to sell mad cow test (UPI) U.S. firm GeneThera said Monday it could become one the first private companies to market a mad cow disease test to cattle owners. [News Source]

U.S. pushing harder on beef rules. Washington has requested that Japan soften its age restriction on U.S. beef under a concrete deadline, sources well-versed in the trans-Pacific relationship said Sunday. [News Source]

Ethanol push adds to forces lifting food costs. Americans face sizable increases in their grocery bills this year as a boom in ethanol production diverts more corn from the nation's dinner table to its gas tank. [News Source]

GeneThera in Preliminary Talks for Mad Cow Testing (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. announced today it has begun preliminary talks with ranchers to test their cattle for the Mad Cow disease. [News Source]

Investors Hunger for McDonald’s (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) McDonald's has managed to keep turning around sales at its languishing European businesses, at the same time new products helped the fast food chain snag customers. After the company raised expectations of its first quarter earnings, investors bought its shares on Apr. 13. [News Source]

NMPF opposes opening Canadian border to breeding animals (AG Weekly) ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Milk Producers Federation, in comments submitted Friday (March 9) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is opposing the resumption of cattle exports from Canada for breeding or herd replacement purposes. [News Source]