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Article: Minnesota farmers fear mad cow fallout; As nations ban U.S. beef, farmers are hoping the domestic market doesn't collapse.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 28, 2003
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Byline: Joy Powell; Staff Writer
Windom, Minn. -- Farmer Glen Graff slowly steered his feed wagon through a pen of beef cattle, the ugly realization of the nation's first case of mad cow disease riding hard through his mind.
Since the discovery of an infected cow in Washington state Tuesday, he has thought of little else.
Saturday brought the latest global news to the southwestern Minnesota livestock farm that has been in his family for more than a century: U.S. officials said the infected dairy cow apparently came from Alberta about two years ago.
Canada was the site of a single mad cow case in May that nearly devastated its beef ...