New guidelines, same delicious dairy! The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend 3 servings of dairy daily. Cheers to celebrating National Dairy Month the nutritious way! 🥛
🥊 MAIN EVENT 🥊
Sterile Fly vs. New World Screwworm. One enters to reproduce. One enters to end the bloodline. 🪰
One mission. One goal. Knockout New World screwworm!
Learn more about the sterile insect technique that's being used to control and eradicate NWS at https://t.co/LLaPC1kGs3
Secretary Rollins welcomes President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of @johnrich as Special Envoy for American Landowners.
As Special Envoy, Rich will serve as a strong advocate for America’s farmers, ranchers, and private landowners, helping ensure their rights are protected and their voices are heard in Washington. He will work closely with USDA and stakeholders across the country to defend private property rights and address growing concerns from landowners facing pressure related to large-scale solar and wind development that impact productive farmland and rural communities.
America’s farmers and ranchers deserve a government that stands with them. USDA looks forward to working alongside John as we continue advancing President Trump’s commitment to protecting rural America and preserving our nation’s agricultural heritage.
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America’s food supply is safe, and the @USDA is taking swift, aggressive action to eradicate New World screwworm.
This is a pest the United States successfully eradicated in the 1960s through coordinated science and sterile fly technology.
Under the previous administration, New World screwworm began to re-emerge and move north through the Darien Gap as millions of people traveled towards the southern border.
By 2023, screwworm was present in Mexico.
It was shocking when I came into office in February of last year to learn the last administration had just five full-time staff working on screwworm.
As of last Wednesday, when our first New World screwworm case was confirmed, USDA had over 100 staff working on preparedness and response—a team we built over the last 14 months in anticipation of this moment. This in addition to the $1.3 billion committed and invested for new infrastructure and sterile fly facilities, the first opening later this month.
We have rapidly scaled up our response: expanding surveillance across high-risk corridors, strengthening coordination with state agriculture officials and international partners, and accelerating deployment of proven sterile fly operations that were used successfully to push this pest out of the United States in the 1960s and all the way to South America by the 1980s.
We beat screwworm in the ’60s, and we will beat it again. Visit https://t.co/WLHhKbcWyr for more information and up to date information.🐄🇺🇸
JUST NOW: @SecRollins in Kerrville, TX touring the cutting-edge @USDA_ARS Knipling-Bushland Livestock Insects Research Lab — the epicenter of game-changing research in our war on New World Screwworm.
This facility has developed a novel sterile fly strain that doubles production output, supercharging our eradication efforts on the frontline.
Get the latest info on New World screwworm ⬇️
🔔 Follow @Screwworm_RR for LIVE updates.
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It’s #NationalPizzaDay! 🍕 In 2024, Americans ate an average of 12.5 pounds of mozzarella per person according to @USDA_ERS. A huge thank you to our dairy farmers who make all this delicious cheese possible! Our slices wouldn't be the same without you.