By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United States. Here's how.

The Mexican government has started construction on a $51 million facility in southern Mexico as part of an effort to combat the New World screwworm that’s disrupted Mexican cattle exports to the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and equines from ...

Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) is a program within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) within the Department of Agriculture. PPQ safeguards agriculture and natural resources ...

The U.S. will begin reopening ports for livestock imports from Mexico starting July 7, after progress in controlling New ...

The action follows detections of citrus canker in plant tissue samples collected from residential properties in Cameron and ...

A federal judge has ordered USDA to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of its grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression ...

According to documents provided by Alpha Genesis and the USDA government website, the Alpha Genesis Inc. site at 95 Castle ...

By deploying specially trained beagles, Labrador retrievers and Jack Russell terriers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Services' (APHIS) Detector Dog ...

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The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reports, to date, that more than 100 million birds have died due to the spread of avian flu virus in the United States.