I got a call some time ago from a reader about this worm in his cabbage. I visited his home to take a look. Most of his cabbage and related crops had small holes in the leaves. He showed me the ...

Ranchers across Pennsylvania and beyond face a new tick-borne illness researchers say will be an eventuality for U.S. cattle.

AgriLife Extension’s updated fact sheet provides the latest approved treatment recommendations as well as identification tips and monitoring guidance. Review the online resource to protect your forage ...

Stable and horse flies are the most common pests in cattle feedlots, with stable flies causing the greatest economic damage.

Horn flies bite up to 40 times a day and spread anaplasmosis. Face flies are worse than they look. What tags, rubs and garlic ...

Tick headlines are easy to come by in 2026 and for good reason. For Iowa cattlemen, awareness of the Asian Longhorn Tick and Theileria, as well as other disease risks, is one of the many topics ...

“Fly populations are like icebergs,” he says. “The flies that we’re actually seeing are only about 20%. Then we’ve got the army behind them. That would be the pupae, the larvae and the eggs. We need ...

Across the country, cattle producers like me are on the lookout for the New World screwworm fly, an invasive, flesh-eating parasite that recently crossed the border into the U.S. from Mexico.

Politicians of both political parties have blamed either the Trump or the Biden administration for the arrival of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that affects the cattle industry, in the U ...

Nebraska cattle producers continue to face tough conditions this season. Cool‑season grass production is coming in 30-70% below normal, with warm‑season pastures starting off behind. With forage ...

Earlier this month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told residents to brace themselves for an “extraordinarily challenging summer.” A flesh-eating parasite that did hundreds of millions of dollars of damage ...

After spending the morning testifying before Congress, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins flew to South Texas to assure ranchers and local officials that the government was moving quickly to ...