Britain still has the highest number of positive tests for mad cow disease in Europe, the EC says. The problem is diminishing in most of the 15 EU nations, but in Britain there were 260 positive ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain banned imports of cattle, pigs and sheep from Germany on Tuesday to prevent foot-and-mouth disease spreading to Britain, after a case was confirmed in Berlin last week.

In the 1990s Britain was hit by an epidemic of a fatal neurological disease in cows that also killed 178 humans. Science was split between government assurances of safety and dissidents warning of ...

His cows wear electronic collars so he can monitor how active they are and when his best producers are ready for insemination. For Hugh it's about being both "profitable, and sustainable as well".

Strains of bird flu found in U.S. dairy cows have not been detected in the EU or UK, according to French officials. This ...