Return of the Screw Flies

OK, I read the article, and it seems to suggest that Texas has decided that the federal efforts, regardless of how successful they have been in the past, should be supplemented by Texas "home-grown" solutions. We are all doomed.
 
The screw worms are already a key cause of the skyrocketing beef costs in the USA — we tried to prevent importing infection by prohibiting buying cattle from Mexico and points south, which makes sense. But western ranchers have been under immense drought pressures, forcing them to replace virtually free grazing with costly feed, and the COVID inflation on feed and ultimately worker pay led to culling of herds. Then herds could not be resupplied with a lot of foreign cattle due to the screw worm risk.

Meanwhile, demand for beef continues to rise in the USA, especially as high protein diets gain favor.

At least they are trying to be proactive to fight the inevitable screw worm infections in American herds.
 
nycfan said:
The screw worms are already a key cause of the skyrocketing beef costs in the USA — we tried to prevent importing infection by prohibiting buying cattle from Mexico and points south, which makes sense. But western ranchers have been under immense drought pressures, forcing them to replace virtually free grazing with costly feed, and the COVID inflation on feed and ultimately worker pay led to culling of herds. Then herds could not be resupplied with a lot of foreign cattle due to the screw worm risk.

Meanwhile, demand for beef continues to rise in the USA, especially as high protein diets gain favor.

At least they are trying to be proactive to fight the inevitable screw worm infections in American herds.
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Oh that makes a lot of sense.
 
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