Beef News

THE country's top civil servant responsible for the Government's handling of bovine TB policy was confronted by an angry Westcountry beef farmer as she toured this year's Royal Show at Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, yesterday.

The biggest dip was for rib-eye steak, which plunged from $9.95 per pound in April to $8.57. Prices paid to livestock and dairy farmers have been dismal this year and consumers are beginning to see the effect in the form of lower prices for meat and dairy products.

If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely.

Geeks discover NAIS, and the results are, well, read through the comments for a look at the levels of ignorance out there about ranching .

UNB, Satkhira Ten members of three families fell sick after eating Indian smuggled beef at Goalpara and Chanduria villages in Kalaroa upazila on Sunday.

The United States pressed Japan on Monday to lower barriers to exports of U.S. beef and insurance services, but praised Tokyo for other steps it has taken to open its market.

Cattle feeders and cow-calf operators can learn more about storing distiller's grain during a meeting on July 6 in Scottsbluff sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. UN-L beef feedlot specialist Galen Erickson will make a short presentation via an audio-video internet linkup about issues such as storage losses and distiller's grain feed ...

The Connecticut Democrat helped touch off the complaint with one sentence in the fiscal 2009 omnibus spending law: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to establish or implement a rule allowing poultry products to be imported into the United States from the People's Republic of China ." DeLauro, chairwoman of the House ...

Julie Stinar once worked with some of the top names in fashion: Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Tracy Reese.

When the wind is right, I'm pretty sure you can pick up the smell of Shack in the Back BBQ from anywhere in the vicinity of Fairdale.

David Ortiz is opening a steak place in Framingham , called, big surprise, Big Papi's. Will also serve seafood and burgers, so they've gotta get Dennis Eckersley out there to analyze the serving of the first burger: That thing's got some serious cheese on it! Hairy cheese! With paint! OK, maybe not.

Three cows or three chicken nuggets? For Mike Corley, the choice was easy. The superintendent of the Pine-Eagle School District in Halfway said the cows that were donated to the district by ranchers last year provided a superior source of protein compared with the chicken nuggets the district had been serving because of rising food costs and school ...

Food contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 may not look or smell spoiled, but eating it may cause serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses.

Consumers might not learn what South Carolina stores sold ground beef possibly contaminated with E. coli until after the grill-happy July Fourth weekend.

Smitha s Food and Drug Stores has expanded a recall on beef products. The recall now includes packages weighing two pounds or more of store-brand ground beef, 85 percent lean, 15 percent fat, with sell-by dates of April 27, 2009 to June 1, 2009.

Today is the end of the Government's consultation period on a "new independent body for animal health". Such an organisation may sound like another innocuous quango, but the truth is more sinister: it's an attempt to shift cost, responsibility and, above all, blame away from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the event of ...

A dead brown cow washed up in a city beach and has promptly unleashed a bureaucratic tangle as officials tried to figure out how to remove 675-kilograms of rotting beef from the beach.

Yesterday we caught the La Cense Beef Truck stocking up at a Bowery store. Latest word is, she'll debut at the end of the week at 46th and Park.

Smith's Food and Drug stores in Utah are recalling several beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Members of the public should phone their protest to the Department of Health if the government went ahead with an expected full opening of Taiwan's market to U.S. beef, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party said yesterday.