{"id":797,"date":"2026-09-17T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/us-farm-agency-prepares-to-reopen-new-mexico-port-to-livestock-trade-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:01:46","slug":"us-farm-agency-prepares-to-reopen-new-mexico-port-to-livestock-trade-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/us-farm-agency-prepares-to-reopen-new-mexico-port-to-livestock-trade-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"US farm agency prepares to reopen New Mexico port to livestock trade next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->By Leah Douglas<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday \u200cthat the Department of Agriculture is \u200cpreparing to reopen a New Mexico port to livestock \u200btrade next week after it was closed because of New World screwworm.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->Rollins said during remarks at the National Association of State Departments of \u200cAgriculture conference in \u2060Portland, Maine, that she plans to travel to New Mexico on Wednesday \u2060night.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->&#8220;We&#8217;re getting ready to reopen that New Mexico port next week,&#8221; Rollins said.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->The USDA in \u200blate August \u200bresumed cross-border livestock trade \u200bwith Mexico under \u200ca phased port reopening that began in Douglas, Arizona, after months of closures due to concerns about the spread of the screwworm parasite.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->According to the agency, there are currently two active \u200cscrewworm infestations, both in \u200bTexas, one in a horse \u200band one \u200bin a dog.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->&#8220;What you all have \u200cproven for the last 20 \u200bplus days \u200bin Douglas is that this is manageable and doable, and the minute we believe \u200bthere&#8217;s another \u200cthreat, we shut it down again,&#8221; Rollins \u200bsaid.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->(Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington; \u200bEditing by Chizu Nomiyama)<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; U [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}