Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the U.S. Agriculture Secretary met on Friday to announce steps to battle an invasive species that ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, ...

Ranchers warn the deadly screwworm fly is approaching Texas borders, threatening cattle herds and beef prices, The New York ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...

The devastating pests have crossed Central America. Despite stepped-up efforts, there are not enough sterile flies to stop ...

New Initiatives Announced To Prevent Flesh-Eating Screwworm From Reaching U.S. originally appeared on Paulick Report.

A deadly parasitic fly, the NWS is believed to be 370 miles south, flying north through Mexico from Central America.

Governor Greg Abbott announced that at least $750 million will go into a new Texas facility to prevent the spread of this ...

USDA launches a key initiative with a new sterile fly facility in Texas to combat the New World Screwworm and protect US ...

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...