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The Fence Post3h
Secretary Rollins announces bold plan to combat new world screwworm
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins Wednesday launched an $8.5 million sterile new world screwworm (NWS) fly ...
Drovers5h
New World Screwworm: The Billion Dollar Battle at the Southern Border
As the fight to keep the flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S. intensifies, the economic impact on ranchers and the industry ...
High Plains Journal1d
Rollins presses ahead with latest initiative on New World screwworm
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces aggressive to combat New World screwworm’s northward spread.
Hoosier Ag Today1d
USDA’s Plan to Keep Screwworm Out of US
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday that USDA would be reestablishing a New World Screwworm sterile fly facility ...
Drovers2d
Rollins Rolls Out 5-Point Plan to Contain New World Screwworm
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces plans to reopen Moore Air Base in Texas as a New World Screwworm sterile ...
Texas Standard8h
New South Texas facility will help fight return of flesh-eating pest
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to open a new facility in South Texas to defend against New World Screwworms: a ...
Scientific American1d
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.
Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...
Longview News-Journal1d
'A nasty parasite': State, federal agricultural leaders prepare plans to combat New World screwworm
State and federal agricultural leaders are making plans to combat a potentially devastating parasitic fly that they expect ...