Texas Sale Barn Adapts After First U.S. New World Screwworm Case in Decades
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Southwest Livestock Exchange is a sale barn about 15 miles from where the first case of New World screwworm (NWS) was detected in Texas last week, and it held a cattle sale the day after the USDA confirmed the case.
Cline Speer, whose family runs the Exchange, said the barn holds sheep and goat sales on Tuesdays and cattle sales on Thursdays. As a result, it held a regularly scheduled sale mere hours after the first case of NWS was confirmed on Wednesday in La Pryor, Texas.