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...ease a nationwide milk glut, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to start paying dairy farmers to sell their herds for export or slaughter and get out of the business. The USDA incentive: up to $22.50 in lieu of each 100 lbs. of milk that the farmer normally would have produced over one year. But to participate in the program, dairymen must brand every cow with a 3-in. X on the right jaw. Reason: without such markings, cows that were supposedly slaughtered or exported could be surreptitiously sold to other U.S. farmers ; and keep on producing milk...
...pending suit filed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) against Columbia University, accusing the school of mistreatment of laboratory animals, may halt much of the animal research performed at the New York school...
...spokesman for the USDA said that the agency's suit was filed primarily to force Columbia to comply with recently revised animal welfare laws. He said that the USDA expects that the school will plead guilty once the case reaches court...
Last year Congress revised the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, which is enforced by the USDA, establishing new guidelines on research animal treatment. The legislation, which took effect at the beginning of this year, calls for a "physical environment adequate to promote the psychological well-being of primates...
...seed-processing business in 1949 and doubling profits during the next 18 years. He went on to hold top positions in the agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block...