Britain: 800 haemophiliacs given tainted blood at risk of vCJD (The New Zealand Herald) More than 800 people with haemophilia have received contaminated blood products putting them at heightened risk of developing vCJD, the Government has disclosed for the first time. The figures were revealed in a parliamentary answer... [News Source]

Britain: 800 haemophiliacs given tainted blood at risk of vCJD (The New Zealand Herald) More than 800 people with haemophilia have received contaminated blood products putting them at heightened risk of developing vCJD, the Government has disclosed for the first time. [News Source]

Roberts: Cash Feeder Cattle Prices Increase, Corn Gains Subdued (CattleNetwork.com) CORN futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) closed up on Monday. The JULY’09 contract closed at $4.214/bu; up 4.25 ¢ /bu and nearly even with last Monday. DEC’09 corn futures finished at $4.420/bu; up 3. 5 ¢ /bu and 1.75+ ¢ /bu over last report. [News Source]

Humane Society of the United States (Lake Superior News) February 17, 2008 ~ WASHINGTON ~ The Calif. beef was used in some school lunch program across the country. The recall by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company, based in Chino, Calif., comes after a widening animal-abuse scandal that started after the distributed an undercover video on Jan. 30 that showed workers kicking sick cows and using forklifts to force them to walk. [News Source]

Chump Change (DTN / The Progressive Farmer) What will it take to truly put the hog market back in the ring? [News Source]

Give This Market Some Credit (DTN / The Progressive Farmer) It's hard to party when you're covered with red ink. No one knows this better than U.S. pork producers who have been consistently bleeding buckets of equity pretty much since the first quarter of 2007. [News Source]

When A Rose Is Not A Rose (DTN / The Progressive Farmer) What's in a name? A lot if the commodity you produce is tied linguistically to a deadly disease. [News Source]

Ranchers still oppose animal ID. Five years after the federal government started a program to trace livestock in the event of a disease outbreak, just 36 percent of ranchers are taking part. [News Source]

Cattle packers say no effect from mad cow. Two US cattle and meat packer groups say the confirmation of another case of mad-cow disease in Canada late Friday will not affect the safety of US beef, but a third group disagrees and wants the government to take more action. [News Source]

DA lifts ban on Dutch beef imports (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday lifted a ban on the entry of beef and beef products from the Netherlands following the confirmation from global animal health authorities that the Dutch country has managed to contain the mad cow disease. [News Source]