About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of the New World screwworm outbreak on the beef industry in Texas and New Mexico.
BEEF We’ll start again with the New World screwworm. We now have 6 confirmed cases in Texas and 1 in New Mexico. Affected animals are a dog, a goat and 5 cattle. While our border with Mexico has been closed for months now to live animals, Texas cattle is now barred from export to Canada and I’d expect that list to continue to grow. This is a growing issue that will affect our beef industry for the foreseeable future. Beef production was 533K head last week, up from the holiday shortened...
People in this episode
Host: Tracy
Topics covered
- beef industry
- agriculture
- animal health
- trade restrictions
- livestock
- screwworm outbreak
Keywords
- beef
- screwworm
- Texas
- New Mexico
- livestock
- trade
- agriculture
Mentioned in this episode
Products: beef
Places: Texas, New Mexico, Canada, Mexico
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