It’s the night before an auction, and cattle are beginning to arrive. Manhattan Commission Company in Manhattan, Kan., already smells like livestock - it always does - but the back lot is also about to get loud.
A year since a tense standoff between a Nevada rancher’s armed supporters and federal land managers, Cliven Bundy’s cattle still roam public lands, more than $1.1 million worth of grazing fees have yet to be paid and Bundy has become a tea party celebrity in the West.
The Obama administration is moving to cut down on the thousands of foodborne illnesses linked to chicken and turkey each year with an overhaul of poultry plant inspection rules that are more than 50 years old.
Three Omaha residents are suspected of raiding cattle under the cover of night from farm pens in western Iowa and northeast Nebraska, authorities said.
