Schafer addresses farm bill, Canadian BSE and Cuban trade (The Prairie Star) There has been no shortage of problems or concerns to face for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new secretary, Ed Schafer. [News Source]

Local Notes (The Morning News) Dance Party Benefits Komen FAYETTEVILLE - A "totally 80s" dance party is planned for Saturday at the Old Post Office at Urban Table Bar and Grill, 1 W. Center St., Fayetteville. [News Source]

USDA beef recall creates challenge (Tri-State Neighbor) Bo Reagan concedes the beef industry is facing a huge challenge after the USDA recalled 143 million pounds of meat produced at a California plant. [News Source]

Schafer addresses farm bill, Canadian BSE and Cuban trade (The Prairie Star) There has been no shortage of problems or concerns to face for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new secretary, Ed Schafer. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly) Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market been this shaken. [News Source]

Health Highlights: March 15, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: [News Source]

Crunch Time for Tokyo (Far Eastern Economic Review) Over the next 20 years, the financial wealth of Japanese households will stop growing and begin to decline, leaving them with $8 trillion less than they would have had if historical growth rates persisted, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. [News Source]

Briefs (Mohave Valley News) DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) - Family members said a soldier from Douglas has been killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq. [News Source]

Ex-worker implicates Hallmark manager in cattle abuse (The Press-Enterprise) The operations manager at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. knew about cruelty and food safety violations at the Chino plant and, in at least one case, he ordered it, an ex-employee said in an interview from jail. [News Source]

Ex-worker implicates Hallmark manager in cattle abuse (The Press-Enterprise) The operations manager at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. knew about cruelty and food safety violations at the Chino plant and, in at least one case, he ordered it, an ex-employee said in an interview from jail. [News Source]