With the presence of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite in the U.S. growing greater by the day, federal and Texas officials are ...

As President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the Dow Jones was making ...

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 USDA has announced a new sterile fly breeding site in southern Texas to protect American cattle from the deadly New World ...

Stopping Screwworms - Governor Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announce new plans to stop the spread ...

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed "plans to fight ...

Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says the big losses in the cattle market on Thursday were tied to concerns ahead of USDA's New World screwworm (NWS) announcement. Grains are bouncing on value ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today at the Texas State Capitol alongside Governor Greg Abbott and ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, also now will serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

During Friday's press conference, Gov. Abbott and Sec. Rollins announced a $750 million investment to combat the New World screwworm threat in the state.

The facility will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile screwworm flies per week, tripling the current capacity to ...

Federal and Texas leaders have announced an unprecedented $850 million plan, including a new sterile fly facility in Edinburg to stop New world screwworm.