Livestock Rules Still Ruffling Fair Feathers
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By Ryan Schuster, The Bakersfield Californian  Sep. 18--Plenty of dust has been kicked up at the Kern County Fair's  livestock division in recent years -- and not all of it has come from the  animals.
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By Ron Jackson, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 3--WALTERS -- Six defendants charged with cockfighting in Cotton County waived their rights to a preliminary hearing Friday.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.
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Farmers are hoping that restrictions on the movement of livestock will soon be lifted.
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By Ben Neary Associated Press  CHEYENNE -- Time is getting short in the current Wyoming legislative session for any action to resolve a dispute between the state and the federal government over wolf management.  The U.S.
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A year after the first US case of mad cow disease was reported, Sen. Maria Cantwell says the Food and Drug Administration still has not fulfilled its promise to tighten animal feed rules to help prevent future cases.
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Squishy federal guidelines on what makes a farm "organic" has got advocates like Mark Kastel demanding stricter standards -- and forcing big producers to comply
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A state senator has a plan for saving Oklahoma's gamefowl industry now that cockfighters are legally prohibited from pitting birds fitted with razor-like spurs. State Sen.
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While horses continue to fall off an extremely bumpy road to the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, Evening Attire keeps on trucking.
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The feathered creatures winging across North America have an obvious gift that land-bound humans lack, but their survival is threatened by earthly concerns.
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Nigeria's first human death from bird flu  has jolted some people into taking chicken off the menu, but  live poultry markets are still busy with buyers.
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Lobbyists and members of Congress have managed to hold off the enforcement of a five-year-old law that required country-of-origin labeling on meat, fish and produce.
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At a frenzied fair, condos and cosmetics are also hawked.
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There are fears new foot-and-mouth restrictions may affect Wales's sheep sector more than in August.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Sep. 7--WARREN, Minn. -- Marshall County commissioners on Wednesday  rejected a proposed interim law to regulate animal feedlots.
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The European Commission is urged to relax rules on using animal carcasses in farm feed.