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The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots with a multimillion-dollar ...
The invasive spotted lanternfly, a pest harmful to agriculture and forestry, has been detected in South Carolina. Clemson ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is deploying extensive emergency resources to assist Central Texas communities impacted by ...
U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) sent (Dec. 12, 2024) a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting the U.S.
The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing ...
Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and ...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...
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.
The USDA wants to deregulate (approve for release into the wild) the GM American chestnut tree in spite of the fact that it ...
APHIS issued its final rule on animal ID that has been in place since 2013, switching from solely visual tags to tags that are both electronically and visually readable for certain classes of ...
USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...