The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts ...

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who patrol border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also serve as defense against screwworm.

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

USDA unveils a five-pronged plan with Tick Riders, detector dogs and a Texas sterile-fly facility to combat New World ...

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins held a joint news conference Friday to announce new ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the U.S. Agriculture Secretary met on Friday to announce steps to battle an invasive species that ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing up to $750 million to build the United States’ first ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in Texas to fight ...

A deadly parasitic fly, the NWS is believed to be 370 miles south, flying north through Mexico from Central America.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sounded the alarm, warning of the potential spread of the New World screwworm into the United States.

Gov. Greg Abbott was joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the Texas Capitol where Rollins announced the ...

The USDA invests $750 million in a facility in Edinburg, Texas, to combat the New World screwworm, protecting U.S. livestock ...