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With the nice spring weather I look back at the winter snow, I'm sure glad it is spring.


Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced USDA's estimate of the prevalence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States.
"Our enhanced BSE surveillance program has been an enormous undertaking, but well worth the effort," said Johanns. "We can now say, based on science, that the prevalence of BSE in the United States is extraordinarily low. The testing and analysis reinforce our confidence in the health of the U.S. cattle herd, while our interlocking safeguards, including the removal of specified risk materials and the feed ban, protect animal and human health."
Japanese and U.S. officials are in the final stages of negotiating an end to a ban on American beef imports to Japan, the Japanese consul general in Seattle said Friday.
"I can't say when, but it's only a matter of time," Kazuo Tanaka said during a visit to Billings.

More than 30 Montana cities and counties filed applications Wednesday for interest-free federal financing for wind energy projects, with Yellowstone and Cascade county commissioners coming to Washington to submit theirs and to lobby on rural issues.

South Korea, which was the third- biggest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, will resume imports from the U.S. after confirming a cow infected with mad-cow disease in Alabama was born before feed restrictions were imposed.
South Korean veterinarians confirmed the cow was born before April 1998 after visiting the U.S., the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said in an e-mailed statement today. The confirmation means inspections procedures that were suspended last month will be resumed.
Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee -- or third, or fourth. A study published on Monday shows heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people.
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