The US stopped livestock imports from northern Mexico due to the screwworm fly threat. USDA Secretary Rollins announced border tightening and a $30M sterile fly program.

A study from the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment offers fresh insights into a billion-dollar ...

Texas played a critical role in eradicating this pest from the United States in the 1960s and will do so again if the need ...

U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) sent (Dec. 12, 2024) a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting the U.S.

In response to the continued spread of New World Screwworm (NWS), Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced the closure of all U.S. southern border ports to livestock trade. The closure ...

New World screwworm flies are pests that can endanger the country's livestock and food supply if not properly eradicated.

A new policy brief, produced as part of the LAMASUS project, highlights that strategic agricultural de-intensification in the ...

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a targeted pest control strategy that involves mass-rearing insects ... this insect sex ...

The Mexican government has started construction on a $51 million facility in southern Mexico as part of an effort to combat the New World screwworm that’s disrupted Mexican cattle exports to the U.S.

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins has launched an $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm (NWS) fly dispersal facility in South Texas and announced a sweeping five-pronged plan (PDF, ...