Current Issue: (The Mac Weekly) This spring break I found myself bowing lower in a church than I ever had before. We were on our knees, slapping our open hands on the dirty wooden floor. We wanted an encore. [News Source]

IND Dairy Tech’s cow breeding technology expands Canadian-style farms in China (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) VANCOUVER, B.C. - When scientist Jesse Zhu wanted to show the dairy-hungry Chinese that Canadian cows produced superior milk, he chartered a 747 cargo plane and flew two dozen Holsteins from a Quebec farm to Beijing as proof. [News Source]

Do you know where your meat is from? Whether it’s with a computer-generated sticker on a plastic-wrapped package of T-bone steaks or a handwritten sign placed by a leg of lamb in the meat case of your neighborhood grocery store, mid-valley consumers now have the right to know where much of their food originates. [News Source]

State officials want livestock producers to watch for foreign disease (Belleville News-Democrat) State officials don't want to alarm livestock producers (or the public), but they do want everyone ready for the time when a foreign disease might infect area livestock. [News Source]

Do you know where your meat is from? (Albany Democrat-Herald) New law requires country of origin labeling for certain products [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]

Do you know where your meat is from? (Albany Democrat-Herald) New law requires country of origin labeling for certain products [News Source]

The slaugterer (Yakima Herald-Republic) Bob Underwood prepares to shoot a cow raised on a rural farm near Prosser on Oct. 3, 2008. This feature is under development and will be available soon. [News Source]