Mexico resumes livestock sales to US under tight controls over screwworm risk
- HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- At daybreak, rancher Martín Alfonso Ibarra takes advantage of the cooler hours in northern Mexico’s desert to oversee the milking of his cows and tend to 16 prized calves.
- Soon, he hopes, they will be headed north to the United States as a yearlong ban on Mexican cattle imports comes to an end.
- The ban, imposed over concerns about a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm fly, dealt a blow to cattle and beef industries on both sides of the border, exacerbating a livestock shortage in the U.
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- HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- At daybreak, rancher Martín Alfonso Ibarra takes advantage of the cooler hours in northern Mexico’s desert to oversee the milking of his cows and tend to 16 prized calves.
- Soon, he hopes, they will be headed north to the United States as a yearlong ban on Mexican cattle imports comes to an end.
- The ban, imposed over concerns about a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm fly, dealt a blow to cattle and beef industries on both sides of the border, exacerbating a livestock shortage in the U.
Sources: ABC News