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How to Stop Flesh-Eating Parasite From Devastating US Cattle? Billions of Flies
The USDA plans to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies weekly in Texas to prevent infestations and protect the cattle industry from economic losses and price rises.
- Oklahoma Farm Report and Dr. Rod Hall confirmed Thursday no new New World Screwworm cases in Oklahoma or Texas, with one sample tested not NWS.
- Last Friday, Dr. Hall told Ron Hays that no new New World Screwworm cases have been detected in Oklahoma or Texas, despite social media rumors about outbreaks.
- The USDA will spend up to $750 million on a sterile fly facility in Edinburg, Texas, and allocate $100 million for technologies like fly traps, Rollins announced on Friday.
- Despite last Friday’s rumors, the Cattle Futures market has stabilized, and Michael Kelsey of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association says out-of-state social media posts misrepresent conditions in Oklahoma and Texas.
- At the Texas State Capitol, USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins and Texas Governor Greg Abbott will hold a press conference tomorrow, August 15, where Rollins said it's `a tactical move that ensures we are prepared and not just reactive`.
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How to stop flesh-eating parasite from devastating US cattle? Billions of flies
The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle industry.
·Portland, United States
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Gov. Abbott, USDA secretary announce large investment to combat New World screwworm in Texas
In an effort to eradicate the threat of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae burrow into the flesh of living animals, U.S. Department of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a more than three-quarters of a billion-dollar investment in a new South Texas facility on Friday.
·San Antonio, United States
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