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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Berenice Garcia

U.S. will build sterile fly factory in Texas to stop screwworm from devastating livestock industry

Forty to fifty head of cattle down from 5,000 due to restrictions on cattle imports from Mexico at the Vaquero Trading stockyard in Sunland Park, New Mexico on January 8, 2025.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it would build a $750 million factory to produce sterile flies meant to destory the screwworm population making its way north thru Mexico. (Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune)

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