Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it is streamlining its H5N1 highly pathogenic avian ...

The APHIS employee who spoke to NPR said they never wanted to leave their job. They'd been with the government for about eight years. The employee took pride in the role they played, ...

Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it received a petition from Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Limited ...

That confidence is backed by an ironclad, multi-layered safety protocol. Thanks to stringent USDA oversight, the U.S. and Mexico have maintained a safe cattle trade for decades. Under Secretary ...

The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing ...

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

APHIS only allows for quarantined areas' citrus fruit and leaves to be moved, and leaves are not always allowed; other parts of the citrus plant are prohibited.

USDA will phase in cattle, bison, and equine imports from Mexico starting July 2025 after enhanced screwworm surveillance and ...

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 ...

On June 18, 2025, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a bold plan to combat New World screwworm (NWS). This plan calls for innovation to eradicate this pest from Mexico and Central ...