Hurricane Resources
Sunday, April 11, 2004
The News Tribune ran a wire story today.
Nothing in the remainder of our watched publications.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
New York Times
U.S. Won't Let Company Test All Its Cattle for Mad Cow
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: April 10, 2004
The Department of Agriculture refused yesterday to allow a Kansas beef producer to test all of its cattle for mad cow disease, saying such sweeping tests were not scientifically warranted.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Mad cow testing plan is rejected
USDA won't let packer check all animals
By LIBBY QUAID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department has rebuffed a meatpacker's plan to test every animal at its Kansas slaughterhouse for mad cow disease.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a small Kentucky-based meatpacking company, had created a firestorm in the cattle industry by seeking government certification for its plan to test each animal at its Arkansas City, Kan., plant.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Saturday, April 10, 2004 · Last updated 9:52 a.m. PT
'Perfect storm' of market events to send milk prices soaring
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Consumers soon can expect to pay 50 cents more for a gallon of milk, due to a combination of smaller herds, higher feed and beef prices, less growth hormone on the market and the emergence of mad cow disease.
Seatle Post Intelligencer
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Kidnappings upstage Cheney's Japan visit
By TOM RAUM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TOKYO -- Vice President Dick Cheney brought a message of solidarity on Saturday to a nation torn over its commitment of humanitarian forces in Iraq. The abduction of three Japanese hostages by Iraqi militants cast a long shadow over the start of Cheney's weeklong trip to Asia.
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In Japan, the vice president also was hoping to make progress on persuading the government to once again start importing U.S. beef. Imports were halted with last December's report of a case of mad cow disease in a Holstein in Washington state.
But U.S. officials said they did not expect more than minor concessions from Japan, possibly to be announced during Cheney's visit.
Japan has said it will only renew imports of U.S. beef under a 100 percent testing program, a level of testing the United States has rejected.
Tacoma News Tribune
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Carried the New York Times article:
Feds stop beef producer from testing for mad cow
DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.; The New York Times
Friday, April 09, 2004
New York Times
Friday, April 9, 2004
USDA Rejects Meatpacker's Mad Cow Plan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 9, 2004
Filed at 11:53 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department has rebuffed a meatpacker's plan to test every animal at its Kansas slaughterhouse for mad cow disease.
Seattle PI
Friday, April 9, 2004
USDA rejects meatpacker's mad cow plan
Friday, April 9, 2004 · Last updated 8:52 a.m. PT.
By LIBBy QUAID ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER.
WASHINGTON - "The Agriculture Department has rebuffed a meatpacker's plan to test every animal at its Kansas slaughterhouse for mad cow disease.Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a small Kentucky-based meatpacking company, had created a firestorm in the cattle industry by seeking government certification for its plan to test each animal at its Arkansas City, Kan., plant."
Seattle Times
Friday, April 9, 2004
Special Section
Mad-cow disease: News and updates on mad-cow disease in Washington state
Spokesman Review
Friday, April 9, 2004
USDA: Meatpacker cannot test every cow
Says the Kansas company's plan is unnecessary, too expensive
Related stories
Libby Quaid
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -
"The Agriculture Department has rebuffed a meatpacker's plan to test every animal at its Kansas slaughterhouse for mad cow disease.
The refusal quiets a firestorm in the cattle industry sparked by Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a small Kentucky-based meatpacking company that was seeking to privately test each animal at its Arkansas City, Kan., plant."
Washington Post
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Friday, April 9, 2004; Page E02
INTERNATIONAL
"Canada said it will challenge U.S. duties on $188 million worth of wheat shipments at the World Trade Organization, adding to existing trade rifts over lumber, cattle and swine. The United States imposed a 14.2 percent duty on Canadian exports of hard red spring wheat, used to make bagels and specialty breads, after the independent U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in October that they hurt U.S. producers. The United States also tags $6 billion of Canadian lumber shipments with 27 percent duties, alleging unfair subsidies, and bans Canadian cattle because of last year's discovery of mad cow disease in Alberta. The United States said yesterday it would study whether tariffs are needed on Canadian pork exports. "
Thursday, April 08, 2004
The Seattle Times - Special Section: Mad-cow disease
The Seattle Times went with AP today.
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Wall Street Journal
Mad-Cow Rules Seen Lifting Producer Costs
"Conforming to several new rules to guard against the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, will cost U.S. cattle producers and beef processors between $110.3 million and $149.1 million a year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report."
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Nothing in the News Tribune, New York Times, P-I, Spokesman Review, or Washington Post today.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Washington Post - Special Reports: Mad Cow Disease
Mad Cow Inquiry Sought in N.J. - Brief from wire services.
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Nothing in the News Tribune, P-I, Seattle Times, Spokesman Review, or the Wall Street Journal today.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
The New York Times went with a Reuters piece and the Seattle P-I went with AP today.
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Wall Street Journal
Swift & Co. Reports Net Loss
"Meatpacker company Swift & Co., battered by fallout from the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad-cow disease, reported a net loss of $40.7 million for the fiscal third quarter..."
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Nothing in the News Tribune, Seattle Times, Spokesman Review or Washington Post today.
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Monday, April 05, 2004
The Seattle Times - Special Section: Mad-cow disease
Mad-cow worry raises interest in alternative to feedlot cattle By Diane Huber The (Roseburg, Ore.) News-Review
Posted by the Seattle Times - "Days Creek, Ore. — Black Angus cattle glisten in the sun while grazing in an emerald field at Swingley Angus Century Farm. Steers in the herd will spend their lives munching on the green grass, rather than make a trip to a Midwestern feedlot to fatten on grain for the final four months of their lives."
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The New York Times and the Seattle P.I. went with a AP story out of Japan. The Times also published a biz story from Reuters regarding Swift & Co losses.
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Nothing in the News Tribune, Spokesman Review, Wall Street Journal or Washington Post today.
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Sunday, April 04, 2004
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Friday, April 02, 2004
Thursday, April 01, 2004
The News Tribune, New York Times, the Seattle P.I. and Spokesman Review all went with wire today.
Nothing in the Seattle Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post.
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