The Texas Department of Agriculture has announced the deployment of of Swormlure-5 bait to end the New World Screwworm ...

Swormlure is a synthetic bait designed to attract adult screwworm flies. It may be highly effective in eradicating NWS when ...

It's an effort to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef ...

Visit highlights role of agriculture in improving health. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured Texas A&M AgriLife on April ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Texas is working to launch a new attack on the New World screwworm, aiming to eradicate it before it ...

The facility will breed millions of sterile New World screwworm flies at Moore Air Base, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

The next step to battling NWS is using swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract adult screwworm flies, combined with an insecticide to combat the pest.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the media in Hillsboro, Texas, on April 29, 2025.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is turning up the pressure on Mexico over a growing water crisis that’s threatening South Texas farmers, announcing Friday that high-level talks with Mexican ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in College Station on Tuesday to discuss food ... a 1994 Texas A&M graduate, ...

In response to the catastrophic flooding across Central Texas, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins continues to direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) activation of comprehensi ...