The agency suspended livestock imports as a deadly screwworm parasite spreads northward in Mexico, threatening U.S.

The US Department of Agriculture has suspended the transport of live cattle, horses and bison through ports of entry along ...

The screwworm larva can devastate any mammal or bird it burrows into, raising alarms as flies spread northward.

The latest halt in cattle imports via the U.S.-Mexico border comes only months after imports were stopped due to the same ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Sunday that the U.S. is halting imports of livestock at ports of entry along the southern border in response to the “continued spread” of the ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called the safety of the nation’s food supply "a national security issue of the utmost ...

Screwworms mainly affect livestock but can also infest humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The threat from the flesh-eating maggots, known as the New World Screwworm, has suspended live cattle imports through the ...

U.S. cattle futures soared to record highs on Monday after Washington suspended cattle imports from Mexico over a ...

Imports of livestock from the southern border have been banned due to the spread of a flesh-eating pest in Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Sunday.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said she is suspending imports of livestock through the Mexican border on a "month-by-month basis" to protect U.S. cattle from the threat of a ...