Items Tagged with 'Sterile Fly Facility'

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announces new steps to keep New World screwworm out of the U.S. while acknowledging that beef prices could rise due to suspended Mexican cattle imports.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to open a new sterile fly dispersal facility at an inactive Air Force base in south Texas as part of USDA’s efforts to stop the spread of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that once wreaked havoc on the American livestock industry.