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USDA Secretary announces large federal investment, new South Texas facility to combat New World screwworm
Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the federal government’s plan to spend up to $850 million to prevent the New World screwworm’s arrival in the United States.
The USDA invests $750 million in a facility in Edinburg, Texas, to combat the New World screwworm, protecting U.S. livestock ...
The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...
On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed “plans to fight back against threats posed by the New World screwworm.” ...
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U.S. will build sterile fly factory in Texas to stop screwworm from devastating livestock industry
Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announces new steps to keep New World screwworm out of the U.S. while acknowledging that ...
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced an aggressive initiative to combat the New World Screwworm (NWS). NWS is a devastating pest. When NWS fly larvae (maggots) ...
Texas Agriculture Department debuts new Swormlure traps, Ivermectin feed additives and a cattle vaccine to combat New World ...
The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it’s creeping ...
It was, in part, to keep the New World Screwworm from entering the U.S. It’s a tiny parasitic fly but it could have ...
With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...
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