Red rain from space may hold alien life CELLS from India's red rain of 2001 multiply under extreme heat - and they don't contain DNA. [News Source]

Wet weather slows Prairie harvest A recent spell of wet weather on the Prairies is slowing the progress of the season's harvest [News Source]

Farmers across much of the Prairies hope for heat as wet weather slows harvest REGINA - Flooding delayed or washed out seeding across a wide swath of the Prairies, and more wet weather is now slowing the harvest. The Canadian Wheat Board says harvest is running well behind the average for this time of year. [News Source]

Red rain from space may hold alien life CELLS from India's red rain of 2001 multiply under extreme heat - and they don't contain DNA. [News Source]

Japan Will Boost Beef Imports Next Year by 1.3%, Pork by 0.5%, USDA Says Japan, the world’s third-largest beef importer, may boost purchases next year, a U.S. government agency said. Pork imports also may increase. [News Source]

Where’s the beef? Cattle numbers fall hance that juicy steak on your plate will be coming from a farm in B.C. — at least for the next couple years. That’s because the number of cattle herds in Canada, and more specifically B.C., has dropped in the last year. [News Source]

New Deer Feeding Regulations The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has developed new rules regarding the feeding of deer. [News Source]

Japanese Demographics and U.S. Beef The U.S. faces two new challenges in growing Japanese beef demand: a falling birth rate in Japan, and a rising average life expectancy of Japanese citizens. [News Source]

Lifestyle › BSE and foot-and-mouth disease give beef producers plenty to chew on “Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef.” While it’s unlikely that too many people nowadays would put Samuel Johnson’s words… [News Source]

Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide. U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates. [News Source]