Auction yards fight Canadian border cattle rule (Rapid City Journal) Five South Dakota auction yards recently hosted fundraisers that generated more than $50,000 to support a legal battle to stop older Canadian cattle from coming into the United States. [News Source]

Park plans to test its elk (Casper Star-Tribune) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) -- Some elk in Rocky Mountain National Park will be tested for chronic wasting disease and given birth control starting next month to see how well the two procedures work. [News Source]

Auction yards fight Canadian border cattle rule (Rapid City Journal) Five South Dakota auction yards recently hosted fundraisers that generated more than $50,000 to support a legal battle to stop older Canadian cattle from coming into the United States. [News Source]

Rockland A.M. report (The Journal News) Drug arrest: Justin Rouse, 19, of Hudson Falls, N.Y., was arrested about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. State troopers from the Haverstraw barracks stopped the vehicle he was in for a traffic violation and found more than 1.5 ounces of cocaine and a small amount of marijuana, police said. [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]