Texas officials and organizations reacted positively to the announcement of a sterile fly dispersal facility coming to South ...

Gov. Abbott has ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

High calf prices, weather and a new threat will headline the general session of the 71st annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course Aug. 4-6.

Key progress” has been made against the New World screwworm, the U.S. ag secretary says, adding that there has been no ...

The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...

Historically, the screwworm was a big problem in several areas of the southern U.S. prior to its eradication in the 1960s.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States said they would gradually reopen the United States border to cattle imports ...

An adult New World screwworm fly sits at rest in this undated photo. The Texas Animal Health Commission and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have been tasked with establishing a Texas New ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.