$1.6 M in funding announced for brain-wasting disease research (CBC Manitoba) Prairie researchers investigating diseases such as BSE or mad cow disease gained $1.6 million in funding Wednesday. [News Source]

COMMENTARY: Livestock Producers Have Major Stake In Direction Of Commodity Programs (Yankton Press & Dakotan) With all of the challenges faced by the livestock sector over the last several years — bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), export bans, E. coli and other food borne diseases, uncertainty over the implementation of animal identification and country of origin labeling — the last thing they needed was a 250 percent increase in the cost of the grains and oilseeds they use as ... [News Source]