Missouri Probes False Report about Screwworm Pest that Hurt US Cattle Prices
Missouri authorities are investigating a fake press release about the damaging livestock pest New World screwworm that sparked a selloff in U.S. cattle futures markets last week, the state's agriculture department said on Friday.
U.S. agriculture officials and farmers are on high alert for screwworm as it has moved north in Mexico from Central America, arriving within about 700 miles (1,125 km) of the Texas border.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture indefinitely halted U.S. cattle imports from Mexico last month in a bid to keep...
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