Key progress” has been made against the New World screwworm, the U.S. ag secretary says, adding that there has been no ...

Imports of livestock from Mexico will resume in phases starting next week after a ban in May at ports of entry because of ...

Mexico-to-US cattle shipments, shut down since May, will start up again next week with “risk-based port re-openings," the ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States said they would gradually reopen the United States border to cattle imports ...

The USDA will reopen Mexico livestock ports in phases starting July 7 after an 8-week closure due to a New World Screwworm threat.

A parasitic fly that devastated Texas livestock in the 1960s is spreading north through Central America and potentially ...

On May 27 U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced $21 million in funding to retrofit a fruit fly production plant in Metapa, Mexico, to produce sterile screwworm flies.

The screwworm threat has already prompted the USDA to suspend live animal imports from Mexico multiple times this year. The border closure in November has contributed to rising cattle prices ...

Between the 1960s and 1990s, scientists and governments worked together to use the fly’s biology against it, eradicating the New World screwworm from the US and Mexico using the sterile insect ...

begin at 8 a.m. 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.