Analysis: Texas Found $20 Billion for Water. The Fights This Month Were About Permission.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
The Texas Animal Health Commission issued new movement requirements for cattle of Mexican origin bound for Texas, tightening the paperwork and identification standards those animals must meet as New World screwworm spreads in Mexico, according to an Aug. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas Animal Health Commission will meet Aug. 25 for a staff briefing on the New World screwworm, the flesh-eating livestock pest that turned up in Texas in June for the first time since the United States eradicated it.
The Texas Department of Agriculture is urging Texans to follow federal food safety guidance after a multistate Salmonella outbreak was linked to some fresh jalapeño peppers imported from Mexico.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller responded Wednesday to Tyson Foods' announcement that it is restructuring its U.S. beef operations amid historically tight cattle supplies, warning that the move demonstrates the mounting consequences of America's shrinking cattle herd and prolonged disruptions to cattle trade with Mexico, according to an Aug. 13 news release from the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller praised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to issue an Emergency Use Authorization for Simparica TRIO to treat New World screwworm infestations in dogs and puppies, according to an Aug. 13 news release from the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Texas Animal Health Commission officials received confirmation of anthrax in a Spanish goat on an Edwards County premises on Aug. 12, the agency announced in a news release.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to tighten oversight of imported meat after nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef from Argentina was recalled for entering U.S. commerce without the required federal import reinspection, according to an Aug. 12 news release from the Texas Department of Agriculture.
A 13-member state board meets Monday afternoon in Austin to approve the next batch of certified prescribed burn managers — a credential that decides, under Texas law, whether a landowner can be sued when a deliberately set fire gets away.
Eight weeks into the first New World screwworm outbreak on U.S. soil in decades, the numbers have gone quiet.