Should the more than $40 million beef plant be built, property taxes on the processing plant alone would increase to more than $743,000 a year, according to the assessor's estimate. Recent cases of mad cow disease in Canada have also been beneficial for small packing plants that can track their beef, Sanderson said. They didn't expect the lawsuits filed to halt it and even though past TIF proposals to the county have been met with some resistance, they didn't expect it would be put to a...

Starbucks and Safeway recently joined a growing list of companies that have pledged to only use milk from cows that are not supplemented with genetically modified bovine somatotropin, which increases milk production. POCATELLO, Idaho n In what many dairymen see as a case of udder folly, more and more pressure is being applied to producers to provide hormone-free milk. Shortly after the Starbucks announcement, California s largest dairy co-op notified members it will no longer accept milk...

Bartle gave his audience both a warning about independent financial realities, and encouragement to flourish in the MMO movement's "window of exuberant creative expression. March 16, 2007 In-Depth: Sony, Stanford Experts Talk PS3 Folding@home Sony has just revealed roll-out details for its Folding@home PS3 service, and Gamasutra attended a Stanford University event revealing the distributed disease-solving PS3 'screensaver', talking to scientists and Sony managers behind the service. March...

Established since 1958, The Company currently employs 80 people on its five acre site, dedicated to the slaughter and processing of cattle and pigs. It added that a legal dispute between the company and its insurers has meant that it could not rebuild and reinstate the full boning facility and was central to the management's decision to sell the business. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the data provided, neither Media World Ltd nor its agents or representatives...

Then on April 7 and 8, at least three cattle were killed, supposedly by wolves, near a ranch about 15 miles north of Carey. A day or two later, more wolves were spotted near the ranch. On March 19, a rancher near Picabo shot and killed the female wolf after it brought down at least one of his cattle. Officials say this is perhaps the first time wolves have been shot by wildlife agents in south-central Idaho. A third wolf , a female, was killed by a rancher near Picabo about five weeks ago....

A final report may be delivered this year, potentially opening the way for the United States to become the first country to allow the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals. The tale of Blackrose and her clones provides a glimpse into the high-stakes, highly emotional collision of science, ethics, agriculture and food. On the other side, consumer groups fear that cloning may lead to unintended consequences that could harm the nation's food supply and imperil the health of animals. In...