YAKIMA, Wash. - Beginning Monday, the United States will allow cattle over 30 months of age into the country from Canada, the latest step in a long disruption of trade caused by the discovery of mad cow disease there in 2003.
No one expects an immediate increase in cattle shipments across the border. At the same time, no one knows for sure how the decision will affect domestic ranchers or foreign markets, which have yet to fully recover from the discovery of an infected cow south of the border that same year.
