Eased culling rules hiked risk of infected meat on market: EU court (TODAYonline) Cows are seen in a truck during transport. A recent easing of rules on culling sheep and goats during outbreaks of mad cow disease could have brought infected meat onto the European market, an EU court warned Friday. [News Source]

Johanns Could Be Leaving USDA Just in Time (AG Weekly) WASHINGTON — The Department of Agriculture is rarely in the headlines these days, but when Secretary Mike Johanns stepped down last week, he listed a range of projects that span the agency’s broad reach, from preparing for an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza to developing an online facility for providing U.S. citizens with nutrition advice. [News Source]

Eased culling rules hiked risk of infected meat on market: EU court (AFP via Yahoo! News) A recent easing of rules on culling sheep and goats during outbreaks of mad cow disease could have brought infected meat onto the European market, an EU court warned Friday. [News Source]

R-CALF: New FTAs detrimental to U.S. food safety (Prairie Star) WASHINGTON, D.C. n Recently negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Panama and Colombia would limit inspections and safety requirements for food imported into the U.S. from these countries. [News Source]

New FTAs detrimental to U.S. food safety. Recently negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Panama and Colombia would limit inspections and safety requirements for food imported into the U.S. from these countries. [News Source]

Livestock Risk Management Workshop Set For Oct. 22 in Vernon (AgNews)

VERNON – Drought, mad cow disease, market volatility and higher input costs have increased risk levels for cattle and forage producers during the last decade, in spite of relatively good market prices, said a Texas Cooperative Extension economist.

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UC Berkeley’s new Stanley Hall not your father’s ivory tower (San Francisco Chronicle) UC Berkeley, the university that made history by building a machine to smash atoms in the last century, has now constructed a building to smash academic boundaries in the 21st century. Costing $162 million, the new Stanley Hall science center is perhaps the... [News Source]

Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer) Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system. [News Source]