To protect the United States from a new threat posed by an old foe – the New World screwworm – the U.S.-Mexico border was ...

Try to put eyes on your herd, as much as possible, look out for anything abnormal,” said J. Scott Herod, who owns a ranch and ...

NEW MEXICO’S CATTLE INDUSTRY IS GETTING READY FOR SCREWWORM TO HIT OUR STATE. THIS IS LARVAE THAT ENTERS THE WOUNDS OF COWS DEVELOPING UNDER THE SKIN AND OFTEN CAUSES DEATH. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ...

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central ...

To say the New World Screwworm is a nasty parasite would be an understatement. The flesh-eating scourge that tortures cattle ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held a May 27 call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Julio Berdegué ...

Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says cattle futures are chasing exploding cash early Friday, with more record high ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Mexican authorities are also enhancing surveillance, holding technical meetings, and ensuring animal movement is carefully managed.

The screwworm, a pest likely remembered only by our grandparents, is making headlines again. With a proper name of New World ...

USDA will invest in the renovation of an existing fruit fly production facility in Metapa, Mexico, to further the long-term ...

For poultry flocks, the summer should be "quiet" for infections, with the number of outbreaks falling in recent weeks, ...