After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico to Texas to prevent the spread of the ...

USDA will invest $21 million to expand a Mexico facility, aiming to double sterile fly production and strengthen efforts to ...

Screwworm outbreak in Mexico leads to six human cases and a U.S. livestock import ban, threatening public health and cattle ...

The New World Screwworm (NWS, Cochliomyia hominivorax) is a parasitic fly native to the Western Hemisphere. It lays eggs in ...

The unpredictability of Trump’s tariff policy on Mexico earlier this year has already cost cattle ranchers millions of ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing ...

The U.S. subsequently suspended live-cattle imports from Mexico. After this latest news broke, I spoke with Wayne Cockrell, a Texas rancher who fears the screwworm’s return to Texas is now a ...

Falling investment, slowing growth, and the changing whims of U.S. President Donald Trump have led Mexico to support an early ...

On May 11, 2025 the U.S. suspended live animal imports from Mexico. This brought to a standstill the importation of feeder ...

For the second time in under six months, the U.S. is closed to cattle, sheep and bison imports through ports of entry along the southern border. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz co-introduced a bill to build an American facility that would curb the reproduction of ...