Tag: Screwworm
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Screwworm border closure fuels beef boom in Mexico, gloom in Texas
LUBBOCK, Texas/SALTILLO, Mexico – Lubbock Feeders has been fattening cattle in West Texas since Dwight Eisenhower was U.S. president. Now, row upon row of pens sit empty. The 70-year-old feedlot in Lubbock, Texas, is on the brink of closure after a halt to U.S. imports of Mexican livestock last year dried up the supply that…