Red tape threatens organic gardener (Northwest Herald) WOODSTOCK – Mayo Underwood is keeping one nervous eye on the weather forecast, and the other on her empty bottle of fermented salmon head plant food. [News Source]

Japanese eye Montana beef (The Montana Standard) DILLON — Japanese people will only eat U.S. beef if they’re assured every cow imported from here has been tested for mad cow disease, a pair of businessmen from the island nation said here this week. [News Source]