Article: Federal, State Agencies Search for Best Method to Test for Mad Cow Disease.

Byline: Andy Dworkin

Feb. 13--As one of the few hundred farms left in Mississippi's shrinking dairy business, Joe Armstrong's Dixie Dairy Sales is just a drop in the nation's milk pail.

But Tuesday morning, when a federal veterinarian beheaded three Dixie Dairy cows, Armstrong stood in the vanguard of the nation's battle with mad cow disease. The three cows, all suffering health problems, died in a state-federal program that pays farmers $50 for brain samples from sick or dead cattle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tests the samples for mad cow disease.

"Anything that we're going to dispose of here on the farm, we just call the federal ...

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