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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.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reports that a human case of bird flu has been confirmed in Texas and identified in a person who had direct exposure to dairy cattle presumed to be infected with the disease.
The Blue Ranch near Dumas was presented the Texas Outstanding Rangeland Stewardship Award at the 2024 Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo held last week in Fort Worth.
Texas A&M AgriLife extension agents have been on the ground since the wildfires helping communities and ranchers recover from the devastation.
Wildfires in the Texas Panhandle caused significant cattle losses for individual ranchers, but should not impact beef cattle markets or consumers, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension photographer Sam Craft was in the Texas Panhandle documenting the aftermath of the largest wildfire in Texas history, and the aid and support for fire victims.
After burning for more than six days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma was only 15% contained Sunday morning. Drifting sand now poses a threat to rural roads.
While the Smokehouse Creek Fire rapidly became the state’s largest in history, four other wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area. (Additional images contained in story.)
Devastating wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle region and the Smokehouse Creek Fire has already become the second largest in Texas history, consuming at least three-quarters of a million acres.
Emergency management officials are advising landowners in five Texas counties to remove livestock from flood-prone areas due to excessive rainfall upstream over the last three days.
Our industry is constantly evolving, but today’s consumer is changing even faster. As producers, we must put ourselves in their shoes because we’re ALL consumers at the end of the day.
A microscopic species of algae is causing toxic algal blooms affecting two dozen states in the U.S., New research into the genetic diversity of the responsible organism could help predict when blooms will occur.
Former student returns to lead world-class faculty, staff and students in animal science teaching, research and extension.