Arizona
Models can’t yet tell you exactly when New World screwworm will reach your area. Cattle movements, weather and reporting will decide how far — and how fast — it goes.
With more than 2,000 active cases in Mexico and new detections just miles from the Rio Grande, USDA officials stress preparedness starts with awareness.
Changing market signals are pushing one Arizona dairy to move away from Jerseys, using IVF embryos to quickly build more Holsteins and reshape the herd for better profitability.
This facility will increase the range of sterile fly release and bolster preparedness for New World screwworm.
The Arizona Livestock Incident Response Team (ALIRT) has rolled out resources and scouting kits to arm ranchers for early detection.
Recent research predicts modest wolf impacts can cut ranch income 28%.
A lone juror stood between rancher George Kelly and innocent. “It is what it is, and it will be what it will be. Let me go home, okay?”
Attorneys on Wednesday argued conflicting accounts of how a Mexican national came to be killed on an Arizona borderlands ranch. The rancher is due back in court on Friday.
Rancher asks for reduction of $1 million bail to care for wife and his ranch. Meanwhile, Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo seeks to help with legal fees.
Federal Wildlife Service plan aerial gunning of estray cattle located in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico despite local ranchers concerns.