Belle Fourche council delays softening feedlot concerns. The Belle Fourche City Council voted Monday to withhold additional comment to the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources on a proposed feedlot south of town, at least until their next meeting in two weeks. [News Source]

Groups call for U.S. beef boycott. Several environmental groups in Taiwan yesterday protested the importation of U.S. beef and called for a boycott of the products, arguing they endanger public health and the environment. [News Source]

Variant of Mad Cow Disease Appears to Be Much More Virulent Than Classical Form (Newswise) An atypical prion strain of mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BS, is more virulent than the classical strain, according to a researcher who spoke Nov. 14 at Kansas State University. [News Source]

Henry champ- Reporter (Thursday, December 04, 2008) (Wheat City Journal) Wheat City Journal: Where did you grow up? Henry Champ: Right in Brandon, on the corner of 13th and Victoria. Journal: How about school? Champ: I started at Central, then went to Park, then to Earl [News Source]

Why SA can’t move its cheese (Independent Online) South African dairy farmers have been curtailed by the European Union's "protectionist measures". [News Source]