Daniel González Delgadillo
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, September 15, 2025, p. 13
In the search for the reopening of the northern border to exports of Mexican cattle, the Regional Cattle Union of Chihuahua (UGRC) indicated that at a meeting held last week with the authorities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the state producers showed how they have managed to avoid the propagation of the bowering worm.
They presented, among other points, the operation of the surveillance program for the detection of the plague, which includes training for producers for the early finding of cases, such as possibly infested wounds, and the treatment application. They were also taught the installation of the fly traps that reproduces the worm and the control of the mobilization of cattle in the state.
“They came to review what we were doing and I think they have a good impression,” said Álvaro Bustillos Fuentes, president of the livestock organization. He commented that the export states of cattle in Mexico are “the best allies” in the United States because they have become a damping zone to limit this sanitary contingency.
In addition to the UGRC, representatives of the Federal Government, of the State Committee for Livestock Development and Protection, of the National Service of Health, Safety and Agrifood Quality (Senasica), and of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, belonging to the USDA, belonged to the UGRC.
Under this context, Bustillos confirmed that he also met with the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué, to address the strengthening of the work with the American livestock industry, of the regionalization for the containment of the baranger worm, the limitation of the mobilization of the cattle, the trapping of flies in export states and the prohibition of the entry of cattle from the south to the center of the country, among other measures.
The coordinated works between the different levels of governments, the producing groups and the Senasica, among others, to contain this plague in the country, after its reappearance last November, have already turned 10 months.
