USDA Leads Trade Mission to Mexico, Announces New Screwworm Defense Facility Opening

USDA Leads Trade Mission to Mexico, Announces New Screwworm Defense Facility Opening

USDA last week conducted what it billed as the largest trade mission in the department's history to Mexico, conducting more than 500 business meetings in three days. The department also announced the opening of a new Tampico facility that will aerially disperse sterile flies.

Rollins Leads US Trade Trip to Mexico City

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins during her recent USDA Trade Trip to Mexico. Photo courtesy of USDA. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently led the largest USDA agribusiness trade mission in the history of the U.S. to Mexico City. During the trip to Mexico, 41 U.S. businesses, 33 cooperators and agriculture advocacy groups, six state departments of agriculture, and 150 participants conducted more than 500 business-to-busine…

USDA Announces Opening of Sterile Fly Dispersal Facility in Mexico

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the next milestone in the fight against New World screwworm (NWS) – the opening of a sterile fly dispersal facility in Tampico, Mexico. The Tampico facility will allow USDA to disperse sterile flies aerially across northeastern Mexico, including in Nuevo Leon. “The opening of the Tampico sterile fly dispersal facility is another incredibly important tool in our arsenal to st…

USDA Opens New Sterile Fly Dispersal Facility in Tampico, Mexico

Effort aims to strengthen New World screwworm prevention across North America WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a new sterile fly dispersal facility in Tampico, Mexico—an expansion officials say will significantly enhance efforts to control and prevent the spread of New World screwworm across the region. According to the USDA, the facility will allow for aerial dispersal of sterile flies across northeastern Mexico,…

USDA wraps up its largest trade mission in Mexico

Rollins reviews New World screwworm response efforts with Mexico’s President and SENASICA team and opens sterile fly facility.