Also. . .

* Today, European Union farm ministers will try at a meeting in Brussels to get a grip on foot-and-mouth disease and the continuing mad-cow scare, which have plunged European agriculture into crisis. British Agriculture Minister Nick Brown is expected to explain his country’s measures to cope with the disease to colleagues anxious to ensure the outbreak in Britain does not get a firmer hold on continental Europe.

* Today, jury selection will begin in Miami in the first of what may be as many as 3,200 follow-up trials to a secondhand smokers class-action suit that has cost cigarette makers $349 million.

* Tuesday, the Commerce Department will report on the nation’s trade deficit in goods and service for January.

* Wednesday, the Labor Department will release its consumer price index for February, a key gauge of inflation.

* Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan discusses news coverage of the economy, markets and the Federal Reserve when he appears at former Vice President Al Gore’s media seminar at the Columbia School of Journalism.

* Thursday, the Conference Board will release its index of U.S. leading economic indicators for February, intended to project growth over six months.