Published 8 days ago • loading... • Updated 5 days ago

US-Mexico port in NM set to reopen despite nearby screwworm detection

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reopened the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico to livestock imports, restricting cattle movement to neighboring Chihuahua under strict new entry protocols.
The USDA halted livestock trade at the port last year to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm, a parasite eradicated in the United States in the 1960s but recently resurfacing in Mexico.
Despite 50 reported U.S. cases and more than 300 in Chihuahua as of Sept. 21, the USDA has released more than one billion sterile flies to neutralize screwworm populations and contain the outbreak.
Imported cattle require five to eight months to reach slaughter weight, so the reopening will not swiftly lower store prices. "There's not going to be a change," said Jeff Stolle, Nebraska Cattlemen marketing vice president.
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez plans to monitor the reopening closely, citing past federal funding cuts for screwworm detection. The USDA aims to evaluate reopening the Columbus, New Mexico, port next.

Insights by Ground AI

18 Articles

Port of entry reopens to livestock

SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Dudley Hoskins visited the Santa Teresa Livestock Crossing this morning as the gates reopened. The port of entry had been shuttered for almost a year and a half because of New World screwworm concerns. U.S. and Mexican authorities were forced to close

5 days ago·Panama City, United States

Read Full Article

The Independent

Reposted by

The Independent (US)

Lean Left

US is reopening another port to cattle amid record-high beef prices

The US Department of Agriculture halted livestock trade at the port in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, last year to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm

5 days ago·London, United Kingdom

Read Full Article