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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.
The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...
The federal government plans to combat flesh-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock by dropping millions of sterile flies ...
Despite the plan sounding like something out of a horror movie, it is part of the government's bid to protect the US from a ...
The US plans to release billions of radiation-treated flies to stop flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock, wildlife, and ...
Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...
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.
Justin Smith of the Kansas Department of Agriculture talks about the New World Screwworm parasite and its northward expansion ...
The United States is preparing to carry out a bold and surprising plan to fight a deadly threat — flesh-eating maggots. Flesh-Eating Maggots Threaten Livestock and Wildlife These maggots are the ...
CME August lean hogs ended down 1.800 cents at 106.100 cents per pound after hitting their lowest level since June 3. The actively traded contract was down 3.8% in the week in a second straight weekly ...