![]() ![]() They deserve our assistance in the face of threats to their vitality. “I also want to thank the Texas Farm Bureau, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and the South Texans’ Property Rights Association, for their consistent efforts to help highlight and battle this issue at the local, State, and Federal level for our Texas ranchers and cattle producers.”Ĭongressman Cuellar continued, “Our cattle producers contribute greatly to the economy and way of life in South Texas. “I would like to thank my fellow Appropriators, Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Robert Aderholt and Ranking Member Sanford Bishop for their leadership and assistance on this issue, along with fellow South Texas Congressmen Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez,” Congressman Cuellar added. Infestations have been reported elsewhere in Central and South Texas as well. Along the Rio Grande, there is a Permanent Cattle Fever Tick Quarantine Zone, an area that spans eight Texas counties on the border and over a half million acres stretching from the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville to Amistad Dam north of Del Rio, intended to prevent the spread of the often deadly tick-borne disease. ![]() Cattle fever ticks carry microscopic parasites that cause anemia, fever, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and often death for up to 90 percent of infected cattle. cattle industry is valued at roughly $81 billion. WASHINGTON- Representatives Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Filemon Vela (TX-34), and Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced today that they helped secure $96.5 million in the Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations bill for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Cattle Health Program, including $5 million specifically for research and scientific tools to eradicate cattle fever tick, an additional $1 million for USDA ARS to conduct research on cattle fever tick treatments, and language encouraging APHIS and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to collaborate with their Mexican counterparts to develop and implement a fever tick control program, so that infected livestock in Mexico does not cross the border and infect Texas livestock. ![]()
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