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Investigation Sought for False Screwworm Claim

Published May 30, 2025

R-CALF USA has filed a formal request to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate this past week’s false claim of a New World Screwworm detection in Missouri. That rumor sent the cattle market downward. R-CALF cited potential market manipulation.

Eradicating New World Screwworm

Published May 28, 2025

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and her Mexican counterpart are working together to eradicate New World Screwworm. After a joint phone call, Rollins announced USDA will invest $21 million to renovate an existing fruit fly production facility in southern Mexico. When…

NCBA: Screwworms Likely to Cross Border This Summer

Published May 15, 2025

The U.S. cattle industry is on alert as the threat of New World Screwworm re-emerges. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association CEO Colin Woodall says the parasitic pest is likely to cross the southern border later this summer. “It’s no longer a…

USDA Suspends Cattle Imports from Mexico

Published May 12, 2025

The USDA has suspended all live cattle, horse, and bison imports at southern U.S. border ports due to the rapid northward spread of the New World Screwworm in Mexico. The pest has now been found as far north as roughly…

Mexican Feeder Cattle Imports to Resume

Published February 2, 2025

USDA is lifting its three-month ban on Mexican cattle imports. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shut down the border in November after New World screwworm was confirmed in southern Mexico. The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to new…

Protecting the U.S. From Screwworm Issue

Published December 13, 2024

South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds is asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to avoid the premature reopening of the U.S.-Mexico feeder cattle trade. In late November, imports were shut down after the confirmation of the New World Screwworm in southern Mexico.…

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Investigation Sought for False Screwworm Claim

Eradicating New World Screwworm

NCBA: Screwworms Likely to Cross Border This Summer

USDA Suspends Cattle Imports from Mexico

Mexican Feeder Cattle Imports to Resume

Protecting the U.S. From Screwworm Issue

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