Ranchers in the Valley's multimillion-dollar cattle business anxiously watch ... Reaction to mad cow disease.(MAIN NEWS) From: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) | Date: January 4, 2004| Author: Pollock, Dennis; Rodriguez, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Fresno Bee. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Robert Rodriguez and Dennis Pollock THE FRESNO BEE

In one day, the value of Paul Rollin's newborn male calves plummeted from more than $100 each to nothing after the nation's first case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington state.

"The market just evaporated," says Rollin, a 45-year dairy operator in the southwest Fresno County community of Burrel. "It was that severe."

News of mad cow disease and the potential loss of much of the ...

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