The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Monday a phased reopening of cattle, bison and equine imports from Mexico ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

According to experts from Texas A&M, the New World screwworm is a tropical, parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere.

It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from ...

Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

The United States and Mexico plan to reopen the U.S. border to Mexican cattle imports in July. U.S. agriculture officials had ...

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

The deadly, flesh-eating parasite has led to border closures for live cattle from Mexico over the past six months.

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a plan to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm this week.

Re-emergence of the New World Screwworm (NWS) has become a recent concern for American agriculture. As the fly moves closer ...