Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle (Slashdot) Ponca City, We Love You writes "The NY Times reports that farmers and ranchers oppose a government program to identify livestock with microchip tags that would allow the computerized recording of livestock movements from birth to the slaughterhouse. Proponents of the USDA's National Animal Identification System say that computer records of cattle movements mean that when a cow is discovered with ... [News Source]

Debt-laden P.E.I. farmer’s cattle returned (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) A farmer in P.E.I. who lost his cattle because of a mounting debt load got his animals back Tuesday. [News Source]

Can we ‘milk’ oil from algae? Imagine a dairy cow so small that you cannot see it. Now imagine when you milk the cow you get oil--not that white stuff we drink. Now imagine there are trillions of these oil-secreting cows and they replicate every 24 hours or less. [News Source]

Top Food Scientist To Target Hidden Fish Allergens, Pork, With New Tests (Medical News Today) The odds of contracting mad cow disease from banned or adulterated bovine protein lurking in raw or processed food for humans or meat-bone meal for livestock have declined over the past decade. So have the risks of purchasing fishy imposters billed as red snapper, ground beef that isn't all cow, or spoiled meat that doesn't look or smell bad … yet. [News Source]

Debt-laden P.E.I. farmer to pick up cattle (CBC Prince Edward Island) A P.E.I. farmer who lost his cattle because of a mounting debt load is getting his animals back Tuesday. [News Source]

MCOT Public Company Limited.2008 (MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency) SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry said Tuesday that an early ratification of a pending free trade deal with the United States is important in helping Asia's fourth-largest economy overcome the current economic slump. [News Source]