APHIS Rescinds the Federal Order Prohibiting the Importation of Certain...
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is lifting the Federal Order (DA-2016-79) issued December 23, 2016, which prohibited the importation of tangerines,...
View ArticleAPHIS Establishes Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata) Quarantine in...
Effective November 22, 2017, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) established a Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly)...
View ArticleAPHIS Removes the Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens) Quarantine Area in...
Effective January 7, 2018, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) removed the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine area in the area of...
View ArticleAPHIS Establishes Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens) Quarantine in the...
Effective December 11, 2017, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) established a Mexican Fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine in...
View ArticleFederal and state agencies working together on cattle ticks in Texas
in Southwest Farm Press The threat of cattle fever ticks spreading northward into the Southwest U.S. is an issue heavy on the minds of South Texas border region livestock producers, who have been...
View ArticleUSDA responds to China’s new soybean import tariff
In 2016, Chinese officials put in place a new grain import law to keep invasive weeds and other plant pests from entering their country. Last fall, they informed USDA that U.S. grain shipments,...
View ArticleAPHIS Issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the National Fruit Fly...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is posting a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the national fruit fly cooperative control program...
View ArticleAPHIS Removes the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata) Quarantine...
Effective June 23, 2018, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) removed the Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) quarantine area...
View ArticleAPHIS Establishes a Host List for European Cherry Fruit Fly (Rhagoletis...
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has developed a host list for European cherry fruit fly (ECFF, Rhagoletis cerasi), and established conditions for the...
View ArticleAPHIS Posts Updated Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map
APHIS updated the Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map to include the following changes: Removed the Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) quarantine in the Fairfield area of Solano County, California....
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