The temporary measure occurred after Mexico notified the USDA it had detected a New World screwworm in a cow in Catazajá, ...
On Friday, the APHIS announced that a New World Screwworm (NWS) was detected in Mexico, causing Mexican cattle imports to be ...
APHIS is working with partners in Mexico and Central America to stop the spread of NWS into the United States, the agency ...
Already high feeder cattle futures jumped Monday and Tuesday. U.S. inventories of beef cattle are at all-time lows, and ...
On Nov. 25, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) held a meeting to discuss the U.S. response to the news ...
The United States has temporarily paused imports of Mexican cattle after a case of New World screwworm (NWS) was identified ...
Worst plague of Florida cattle is a large bluish fly called the screwworm. The adult female lays eggs on wounds or scratches! and the eggs hatch into maggots that literally eat the victim alive.
Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...