Data modeling drives Texas A&M war on cattle ticks

Texas A&M AgriLife scientists used data modeling to uncover new insights into how cattle fever ticks survive and spread ...

Screwworm, cattle fever tick, horse herpes: The latest on the illnesses affecting Texas livestock

This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conditionally approved a topical solution for the prevention and treatment of New World screwworms and cattle fever tick.
The Texas Tribune

Texas braces for an imminent screwworm infestation, a threat to the state’s cattle industry

The Brief keeps Texas voters and political observers up to speed on the most essential coverage of their elected officials, the policies that shape their daily lives and the future of our great state.
AOL

In Texas cattle country, ranchers brace for flesh-eating screwworms

LIVE OAK COUNTY, Texas/TAPACHULA, Mexico/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -He was only eight years old in 1973, but fifth-generation Texas rancher Kip Dove remembers spending countless days trotting up to sick ...
CNN

Wildfires have devastated the Texas cattle industry and the effects may be long-lasting

When Shane Pennington, a 56-year-old cattle farmer near Canadian, Texas, first saw flames from an enormous wildfire approaching the ranch he manages, his first concern wasn’t his home. It was his ...

Texas Cattle Industry Faces Mass Layoffs

The cattle industry is facing mass layoffs, with Tyson Foods reducing its operations at a major plant in Amarillo, Texas.