BARRHEAD, Alberta -- Surrounded by 11,000 head of cattle, flat, frozen rangeland reaching the horizon and two generations of family history, rancher Walter Schmidt takes refuge in numbers. His own 68 ...

The repeated assertion by government officials that American beef is safe to eat -- despite the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease -- is based in large part on painstakingly acquired ...

"The incidence of BSE in the Canadian cattle herd remains extremely low and continues to decline due to intervention measures such as the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban." According to Eby, last year ...

OTTAWA — An Canadian dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with mad cow disease probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. The finding by the Canadian Food ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, panic descended on Central Washington and the nation’s cattle industry over a single cow. U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced a Washington state dairy ...

AMES, Iowa – New research from Iowa State University shows that a fatal neurological disease in cows can be detected earlier by examining the animal’s retinas. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), ...

ST. PAUL -- USDA acted aggressively to protect the nation's food supply after the mad cow discovery, William Hueston says, but there's still more to do. Hueston, director of the University of ...

It has been almost 20 years since Sergio Madrigal and his wife, Rosa, had nearly 450 calves outside of Sunnyside. They all had to be killed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture took them away for ...

The deadly lowing of “mad cow” disease resounded anew last week, causing fearful Europeans to question the ability and willingness of health authorities to prevent meat from cattle infected with ...

Call it “mad farmer” disease. Or “mad butcher” disease. Or “mad consumer” disease. All three groups are increasingly furious about the inaction, vacillation and confusion of their political leaders ...

TORONTO — Canada confirmed a case of mad cow disease on April 16 at a farm in British Columbia — the country’s fifth case since May 2003, when the United States closed its border to Canadian beef. The ...