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.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced risk-based port reopenings for cattle, bison, and equines from Mexico beginning as ...

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

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

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

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. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

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 ...

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