DALLAS — Because Collin County rancher James Foster has 200 head of cattle, his eyes are glued on the southern border with Mexico, watching the slow, northward advance of a parasitic pest that could devastate the livestock industry in Texas.
“We’ve got some place where we have cattle that have a lot of brush on them, some larger acreage places. And there are some cattle, we may not see them for a few days. And if that was to get started, they multiply so quickly, and they do so much damage so fast that you could actually lose livestock to it,” Foster explained on Y’all-itics.
New World screwworms (NWS) will feed on any mammal, even pets and humans. But they prefer livestock…