The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Monday that it will begin a phased reopening of livestock import sites along ...

Sid Miller, Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture, shared the following statement regarding the USDA's plans to restart livestock imports to the U.S. The Texas Department of Agriculture ...

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