Jo Blo

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

@USDA has confirmed multiple cases of New World Screwworm in Texas.

We’re moving fast and smart. Last year, I rolled out a bold five-point plan to protect American livestock and stop this pest in its tracks:

1. Invest into our sterile fly production through the construction of a massive $750M sterile fly production facility at Moore Air Base.
2. Protect the U.S. border at all costs through enhanced surveillance, sterile insect dispersal, trapping, and livestock movement controls.
3. Maximize readiness by partnering with states on emergency plans, training, and securing treatments.
4. Take the fight directly to the screwworm with increased sterile fly dispersals across the U.S. - Mexico border.
5. Innovate our way to eradication through cutting-edge research, more efficient production, better traps, and next-generation tools.

We’re already executing that plan on the ground:
• 20-km zones with strict movement controls around both detections.
• Heightened surveillance and trapping across the area.
• Millions of sterile flies released weekly, 2 million aerial drops twice a week plus ground releases in the area to break the pest’s life cycle.
• Strike teams, mobile labs, and emergency treatments deployed through unified command with Texas partners.

Faced with the irresponsibility of both the Biden regime and too much of the Mexican one, we needed time — to prepare, to coordinate, and to ready the infrastructure to beat what was coming. We acted, and we got the time. Now the task is to turn the tide.

We eradicated New World Screwworm once before, and we will do it again!

For any questions, guidance, or feedback on NWS please email: [email protected]

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

🚨ICYMI: First test reactor in President Trump’s Pilot Program hits milestone to ramp up American nuclear power — a month ahead of schedule.

All we needed was a new President, to unleash the American Nuclear Renaissance! https://t.co/YOBWUrLU0z

[Ryan Giffin @RyanMGiffin]

@Kate_L_Mosso I think most people recognize Bitcoin Cash is at this point.

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

@ByAnyMeansMovie DEI 🗑️

[Karen Braun @kannbwx]

🌽July corn fell 6.55% in the first five trading days of June.

That's the worst start to June in records back to 1973.

[Matt @MattMtz13]

@SimmonsBart I live in Zavala county they have these checkpoints on the highways

[Kotylak @Kotyjo]

On the Ag file, everything costs oh so much.

No super grain cycle—that was just talk to get you to spend on the 2026 crop.

Keep paying for over priced shit.

Grain markets crashed.

AI trading doesn't work.

Off to clean the sprayer.

Might keep the 770.

Have a great day.

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

If you need something done in central North Dakota, Shawn is a good man to work with

[Shawn Gallagher @inc_gph]

Planted May 5th first picture May 18th, second one June 5th. 30 inch canola. @bigmothufacking

[Casey Murph @caseymurph1]

@anttsinc NWS already popped up once in Florida in fall 2016. By spring 2017 USDA wiped it out.
We got this

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak in US https://t.co/DXbVegyAoV

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

Unfortunately you will be seeing these cases pop up like whac-a-moles from here on out, because we currently do not have the number of sterile flies produced to stop this

Only a matter of time until it leaves Texas and spills into other states

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

Ag is about to experience a Holocaust

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

It’s gonna eat’em alive 🩸

[Grok @grok]

**ecomuaf** Currently no operational New World screwworm sterile fly *production* facilities in the US.

The one under construction at Moore Air Base (Edinburg, TX) will be the first domestic production site — expected online ~2027, scaling to 300M flies/week.

Closest operational production facility: COPEG in Pacora, Panama (~100M/week).

Texas does have an operational *dispersal* facility at the same base that receives pupae from Panama and releases adult flies along the border.

[GrainStats 🌾 @GrainStats]

Second detection of Screwworm in Texas 🚨

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

@AlexesNakamoto Rug Pal will be right in the end!

[Jo Blo @JohnHalcrow1]

@Grainmarket67 It’s going to get worse….way worse

[GrainTrader79 @Grainmarket67]

The grain markets are over. Wouldn't touch the long side till fall. You can't even get a bounce to stick. You might get 25 cents up BUT THATS IT.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

There are a lot of dog owners in cities who are essentially mentally torturing their dog by keeping them in apartments. No, your 30 minutes of walking a day and once-a-week dog park visit do not make up for the rest of the time.

[Andrew Whitelaw @WheatWatcher]

Grain values come under massive pressure:

-Lower oil
-Speculators closing long positions
-Better weather in the US.