Mexico is now reacting to Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins’ decision to suspend cattle imports due to the spread of new world screwworm.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has described the move as unfair and says the Mexican government has been working on all fronts to prevent the spread. However, USDA says an “unacceptable northward advancement” has taken place and the suspension is a result of that.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association supports the move. According to Ethan Lane:
“This really is a time for us to be looking at those controls in Mexico, looking at what we’ve got going on at our own border, and then continuing to engage with Congress and illustrating to them just how pressing it is— as part of these ongoing funding and budget discussions in DC make sure they’re thinking about the fact that this is going to be an expensive fix and even more expensive if we end up with new world screwworm here in the Untied States. So we’ve got to be serious about ramping up production of sterile flies here in the U.S. We’re going to need several hundred million more a week than we have now to even begin to mount a defense against this, nevertheless, push it back down into Central America, and that is not a cheap proposition. We’re talking about several hundred million dollars here at a minimum.”
Lane says that Secretary Sollins deserves a lot of credit for taking decisive action. The import ban will be evaluated on a monthly basis.
Cattle imports from Mexico remain stalled amid the New World screwworm outbreak. At the same time, Tyson closures add pressure on Nebraska producers and markets ahead of the USDA’s upcoming Cattle on Feed Report.
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