Though roughly 700 miles from the Texas border, the New World screwworm poses a significant threat that could impact American ...

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

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they’ll kill off a ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that ...

The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite ...

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

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association assisted in the launch of a new website to serve as a centralized hub for producers, landowners and wildlife managers navigating the threat of the New ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Since then, screwworm has been detected in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Mexico, north of the biological barrier that’s successfully contained this pest to South ...

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

As spring calving season continues, producers continue to monitor and assist when needed as their next calf crop hits the ground. Dealing with protective moms can be a challenging situation, two ...

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