It will be eradicated again. But this shouldn’t be happening.
I’m surprised there have not been more cases reported so far and equally
surprised it has not moved more eastward in Texas. I was at the Anderson
auction yesterday and was shocked at how few head they had on hand. Usually
there is a line of trucks you have to wait on to be tagged, written up, and unloaded.
There was only one guy ahead of me. If that’s any indication, beef prices may really be spiking soon.
But at what cost? Leaving what damage? What is the timeframe to eradication and then recovery?
Unfortunately those are unknown.
So the only sterile fly production facilities are in Panama and Mexico ??? With the size of the beef industry in Texas, I’m surprised we have no state side facilities and are just building it now. This sounds like it’s going to be a long battle to achieve
eradication again. Very disappointing if that’s the case.
31 cases now; latest is in 2 sheep in Crockett,Tx.
I suspect that this is being underreported in the border counties. Whether that’s intentional or not is another question.
As I read that map above, there have been
zero “fly trap” detections recorded. Which seems odd to me, but good.
We’ll just have to do like we do for nutria
https://www.foodandwine.com/can-you-eat-nutria-11709014
Eat the screwworm
pleasantly surprised to see the number of cases dropping month to month.
From 30 to 14 to 1 so far this month. Didn’t expect that, especially with lack of
sufficient lab flys being released.
Good news
Yea. That is good news. Hope good news continues on that.
