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Medfly Menace: Quarantine Hits Santa Clara County
California Ag Today
Officials are responding to a Mediterranean fruit fly detection in San José with an aggressive quarantine and sterile fly release program.
New World Screwworm Eradication Costs Underscore Need for Proposed Facility
Line on Agriculture
The potential cost of NWS if it enters the US is huge, and the stakes are high for cattle producers shows why it is important to take steps now to ensure it does not cross over into the US from Mexico.
Cattle Group Supports USDA Investment in New World Srewworm Control
Line on Agriculture
USDA is investing in South America to upgrade a facility that will increase the number of sterile flies that can be used to mate with the New World screwworm females, which then kill the pest as females can only mate once.
USDA Investing More to Control New World Screwworm
Line on Agriculture
In addition to current NWS control efforts, USDA is investing $21 million to resurrect a facility that will produce more sterile flies to drop into NWS-infested areas of Mexico as a way of preventing it from coming into the US.
Sterile Insect Technology for Navel Orangeworm
California Tree Nut Report
Randy Mohler, Pest Control Advisor
USDA Funding Will Help Move Forward Sterile Insect Technology for Navel Orangeworm
California Tree Nut Report
Richard Matoian, Executive Director of American Pistachio Growers
Trying to Perfect Mating Disruption Using Sterile Insect Technology (SIT)
California Tree Nut Report
Houston Wilson is a UCR Entomologist
Manure to Water Pt 1
Washington State Farm Bureau Report
New technology turns manure at Washington dairy to water.
Saving Washington's Mint Industry
Washington State Farm Bureau Report
Washington has long been the predominant peppermint producer in the United States, but a fungus may change that.