Texas
This invasive species, never before reported in North America, has been confirmed in multiple Texas counties and is already causing significant damage to pasture acreage.
How Bloody Buckets Cattle Co. is building on legacy and adopting new tools to find new opportunities.
APHIS confirms a New World screwworm case in a 22-month-old bovine transported from Veracruz to a feedlot in Nuevo León.
Jon and Jackie Means were presented the 2025 Certified Angus Beef (CAB) Sustainability Award. To them sustainability is family, legacy, caring for what you have and managing for profitability.
A multi-state outbreak of neurologic EHV-1 has been traced to a major barrel racing event in Waco, Texas.
This facility will increase the range of sterile fly release and bolster preparedness for New World screwworm.
Historically, colder temperatures have played a crucial role in controlling New World screwworm’s geographical spread.
U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s is partnering with Texas A&M University to advance the sterile fly technique to halt NWS reproduction.
NWS traps will be deployed at the Texas border and ports to protect the livestock industry.
With New World screwworm within 70 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, the livestock industry is on high alert. USDA continues to fight the northward spread of the parasite while debate continues on the border closure.
High-starch diets could reduce dangerous bacteria in beef cattle, offering new food safety strategies.
A federal court has vacated the Biden-Harris administration’s rule that listed the lesser prairie-chicken as an endangered species.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced a plan to build a facility near Edinburg, Texas. It will be capable of producing 300 million sterile flies per week to combat New World screwworm and is estimated to be in production in one year.
The next step to battling NWS is using swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract adult screwworm flies, combined with an insecticide to combat the pest.
Veterans of 2016 Florida Key deer outbreak reflect on lessons learned and share insight to protect Texas livestock and wildlife.
Secretary Rollins takes decisive action and shuts down cattle, bison and equine trade due to further northward spread of the devastating pest in Mexico.
Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, USDA will start reopening the ports for cattle, bison and equine.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces plans to reopen Moore Air Base in Texas as a New World screwworm sterile fly distribution facility. Long-term production is anticipated to be 300 million sterile flies per week.
Increasing carcass size, global methane research and beef on dairy were some of the key topics discussed during the 2025 BIF Symposium.
BIF recognizes Hammack, Paschal, Sanders, Shafer, Steffen and Taylor for their contributions to beef cattle improvement.
The two men arrested were charged with theft of livestock–organized criminal activity which involved six ranches and a sale barn.
Actions steps to take before a wildfire threatens your livestock and property.
Two generational ranches share the benefits of written grazing management plans for stewardship, profitability and legacy.
2025 Top Producer Women in Agriculture Award winner Kimberly Ratcliff wanted a life in New York City, but soon found herself pulled back to the family ranch. She left a prestigious career, went back to school and expanded the operation.
Emma Coffman didn’t grow up in production agriculture, but she’s finding her place in the livestock industry and welcoming others along with her.
The brief supports landowner ownership of groundwater in the Texas Supreme Court case Cactus Water Services LLC v. COG Operating LLC.
Scientists Assess a Tick’s Potential to Spread Disease in Southern U.S.
Association internships offers learning opportunities for students looking for experience in communications, events, membership and government relations.
Rancher and four others consumed meat from a butchered lamb but only the rancher became ill, CDC says.
Wildlife officials depopulated the entire herd on a breeder ranch east of Dallas following a legal battle that ended at the state’s Supreme Court.