State Farm Bureau Asking for Caution with Canadian Cattle Imports (KOLN Lincoln) The Nebraska Farm Bureau is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to follow a number of steps to caution against mad cow disease as it prepares to allow Canadian cattle imports into the United States. [News Source]

U.S. border reopens Monday to older cattle, meat (The Globe and Mail) Canadian producers welcome reopening after four years of restricted trade following mad-cow disease scare [News Source]

Canadian producers welcome U.S. border reopening Monday to older cattle, meat (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) REGINA - After more than four years of restricted trade following a mad-cow disease scare and an estimated loss of more than $1.7 billion, Canadian producers are looking forward to Monday's reopening of the U.S. border to older live Canadian cattle and their meat products. [News Source]

Canadian producers welcome U.S. border reopening Monday to older cattle, meat (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) REGINA - After more than four years of restricted trade following a mad-cow disease scare and an estimated loss of more than $1.7 billion, Canadian producers are looking forward to Monday's reopening of the U.S. border to older live Canadian cattle and their meat products. [News Source]

CWD monitoring takes funding hit. the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is monitoring and combating CWD with fewer resources. The disease, which was discovered in Wisconsin in 2002, is similar to mad cow disease. [News Source]

Cattlemen’s group files lawsuit over Canadian cattle imports (Billings Gazette) YAKIMA, Wash. - Beginning Monday, the United States will allow cattle over 30 months of age into the country from Canada, the latest step in a long disruption of trade caused by the discovery of mad cow disease there in 2003. [News Source]

The almanac (UPI) UPI Almanac for Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007. [News Source]

Cattlemen’s group files lawsuit over Canadian cattle imports (Billings Gazette) Cattlemen's group files lawsuit over Canadian cattle imports [News Source]

Farmers face £40m levy for disease outbreaks. Farmers across Britain face a new levy to help pay for the soaring costs of dealing with animal diseases including bird flu, bluetongue and foot and mouth. [News Source]

DNR says CWD in state Chronic Wasting Disease, which burst onto the state scene in 2005, appears to be in check for now, state Division of Natural Resource officials say. [News Source]