Jon Waits

Established 1977

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: USDA confirms 2 additional cases of New World Screwworm in Texas

A calf in La Salle County in South Texas

A dog in Andrews County in north west Texas on the border of New Mexico

[Purdue Boilers on SR @SRBoilermakers]

A future Boiler, a current Indiana legend. 🚂🔥

Incoming Purdue freshman and Indiana Mr. Basketball Luke Ertel represented the Hoosier State at the Indiana-Kentucky Junior-Senior All-Star Game.

The future is bright in West Lafayette. Boiler Nation, get ready. #BoilerUp 🖤💛

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

[Purdue Men's Basketball @BoilerBall]

📶 Loading.

Summer ball is here.

[Andy Pasztor 🧼🧽 @apasztor82]

These farm toy displays nowadays are awesome!!!! 🔥…. My buddy Carl took a pic of this from the summer farm toy show in Dyersville

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

Clearing up some actual misinformation:

The New World Screwworm does not pose a threat to raw or cooked meat, and consumers should not worry about purchasing meat throughout this crisis

The threat is to LIVE warm blooded animals, also including wildlife, pets and humans

Here is a link to information about information, symptoms, risk factors, how it spreads and prevention: https://t.co/UyPyogfSRN

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

This was Paraguay’s send off ahead of the World Cup

The SEC has 24 hours to respond

[Jon Waits @JRWaits]

@jakequery @SleeperPacers @TylerSmith_ISL I was going to check the comments for that same trade.

[Boiler Burner @BoilerBurner1]

Indiana All-Stars beat Kentucky’s 94-80.

Luke Ertel = dawg.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Flashback: Last year, Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins assured Fox News viewers that the Trump administration had a plan to prevent a screwworm outbreak in the United States.

[Jerod McDaniel @JerodMcDaniel]

When it rains and the prairie takes a breath, this part of the world can be one of the prettiest places on earth.

The tuition is ya have to survive the violence and the hard times to stay here long enough to see it.

As most things, the true beauty is found in the contrast.

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: USDA confirms a SECOND New World Screwworm case in Texas, 5.6 miles from the first case

[Boiler Burner @BoilerBurner1]

Updated @Rivals rankings for Purdue’s 2026 class:

Jacob Webber: #34 (11th overall SF)
Luke Ertel: #48 (7th overall PG)
Sinan Huan: #57 (9th overall C)
Rivers Knight: NR (26th overall PF)

🚂🏀

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

People who continue to blame New World Screwworm crisis on the Biden Administration need to stop

The Secretary has had 15 months to prepare a competent response, and despite what some are saying, the response has been lackluster and unserious

Let’s go over some facts:

In order to eradicate the NWS, we need somewhere between 500M-600M sterile flies produced WEEKLY, and we currently produce 100M weekly

There are current mechanisms and technologies that could be deployed IMMEDIATELY in order to produce those numbers that have been ignored by the USDA for the past 6 months

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) which oversees the NWS response is a disaster. There were some competent veterinarians interviewed during the transition willing to serve and reform the bureau who were blocked by the Secretary and her team. Instead they decided to retain the same director from the Biden Administration (ironic) who botched the response to the Avian flu

The tick rider program (people on horseback looking at wildlife and livestock in desolate areas) is completely disorganized, so the “surveillance” mechanisms that continue to be touted are not sufficient enough to detect these infestations in extremely rural areas in the timely manner required to combat this

On top of all this, producers in Texas are being pressured NOT TO REPORT potential cases, and if it wasn’t for some brave people reporting on this current case in LaPryor, it’s possible it would have been covered up

NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION NOW

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

We think maybe you guys should stick to promoting AI data centers instead of parroting inaccurate damage control about a situation that is about to wreck our already diminished food supply

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

CALL TO ACTION: If you live in a border state to Texas or even Mexico, CALL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS and ask them to pressure the White House to declare a National Emergency Declaration on the New World Screwworm (NWS)

The USDA is currently working to downplay the severity of this situation, but the likelihood of this spreading outside of Texas rapidly increases by the day

A National Emergency Declaration would free up funding and allow other agencies to step in to act, as most other states are not currently prepared to combat this pest

Just to be clear, NWS has no contamination risks to meat. It is a flesh eating maggot that infests live animals that will further devastate the already diminished US Cattle herd

Another important data point is that the NWS CAN ALSO INFEST HUMANS AND PETS, so even if you are not a producer or in Texas CALL YOUR REPS

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: Three counties in Texas have declared local state of disaster declarations on the New World Screwworm: Kinney, Jim Webb and Uvalde

Three others are pending: Webb, La Salle and Val Verde

The reasoning behind these declarations is because they feel they are not getting the federal nor state support needed to combat this crisis

Its long past due for the President to declare a National Emergency Declaration so local officials on the front lines are getting the support they need

[Growl Towel Central @GTC901]

You’re telling me this was off a Chet Holmgren turnover