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Dad sues eloped daughter for $1M
Mustering pilot runs off with cattle baron's daughter in 1986, parents suing daughter and soon to be ex son-in-law. The case involved $1m and whether it was a loan or gift. " AN AUSTRALIAN cattle baron is suing... South Korea lifts ban on US beef
After much dithering South Korean government has finally allowed import on US Beef. The beef row has posed a political crisis for the incumbent government."South Korea has formally lifted an import ban on US...US-South Korea Beef Agreement Reached
An agreement has been reached between the USA and South Korea regarding beef exports. Beef from cattle more than 2 1/2 years old will not be shipped to South Korea.The onus will be on US exporters to verify the age...Cowcam: Separating the Cows from the Bull
The article below discusses a sort of turnstile access for watering holes in the Australian bush. Using facial-recognition software, the system would grant entry to a rancher's cows, but deny access to any other... Brazil to crack down on Amazon cattle invasion
Increase in the Amazon rain forest destruction has got a new villain. Brazil's enviornment minister has blamed cattle for destroying rain forest. He is even ready to seize cattle grazing on forest... Tourism crash in Kenya threatens their big cats
Sadly, the big cats living in Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve are being threatened by a crash in Kenya's tourism revenue, as the reserve can no longer sustain a safe passage clause fo the endangered felines."The... Animals taken from squalid farm
"Hundreds of animals have been removed from a County Down farm where they were being kept in squalid conditions.It follows the discovery of a "mass grave" of more than 40 animals on the Ballyroney Road near... Brighter lamb outlook in Australia
Hundreds of Australian farmers have been on the brink of going broke for several years. The drought has been long and hard in some areas so it is amazing that the Australian lamb industry has survived and that... Beef overcapacity an issue in US
""There continues to be far more beef slaughter capacity than available cattle and we believe this problem will continue to afflict the industry for the foreseeable future.
"We estimate the current slaughter... Cows not all black and white
"Research on colour vision in farm animals shows that they are dichromats with cones (colour sensitive retina cells) most sensitive to yellowish-green and blue purple light. Humans are trichromats and see the full colour spectrum. Dichromatic vision may make the animal...Researchers to measure methane from cow belch
About 20 cows in Sweden will be put on different diets and will wear collars in an effort to measure how much methane each one burps out in the air. Researchers believe that 95 percent of the methane... School raises $590,000 to study cow belching
The bovine belch has never been so lucrative."STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will participate... Cows do recognise people
"Can Cows Discriminate People by their Faces?" Canadian and Japanese researchers trained eight Holstein cows five days a week for three months. For each cow, two people of different size - a rewarder and a...Moth joins battle against horse-killing weed
"A plume moth introduced to New Zealand to help the fight against the noxious weed ragwort is showing early positive results on West Coast. The yellow weed is renowned as a horse killer, with about 2000 horses a year... FDA approves animal clones as food
It all tastes like chicken, right?"After six years of study, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that meat and milk from cloned pigs, cattle and goats and their offspring is safe.
Lack of data meant the...
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