{"id":247710,"date":"2026-04-13T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:50:08","slug":"animal-health-issues-in-texas-threaten-global-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247710\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal health issues in Texas threaten global markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pasted=\"true\">Texas ranchers and animal health officials are confronting a pair of dangerous livestock threats \u2014 one an old enemy that has never fully disappeared, the other a flesh-eating parasite once thought eradicated from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>From the cattle fever tick entrenched along the Rio Grande to the northward advance of the New World screwworm, the state is again on the front lines of a battle that carries enormous consequences for livestock producers and the broader agricultural economy.<\/p>\n<p>Farm Bureau&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"protected-logo mo-logo\" id=\"mo-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iowafarmbureau.com\/img\/mo-icon.svg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Members Only Logo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n        Members Only Content<\/p>\n<p class=\"protected-description mo-description\">Join Iowa Farm Bureau or login to view all members only content and receive other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowafarmbureau.com\/Member-Benefits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">member benefits.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas ranchers and animal health officials are confronting a pair of dangerous livestock threats \u2014 one an old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-247710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}