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LivestockFever tick fight adds expense and worry for Texas beef producersFever tick fight adds expense and worry for Texas beef producers
Cattle fever ticks, carriers of a blood disease that once nearly wiped out the U.S. cattle herd, has landed farther north in the Texas interior in recent months, violating a permanent tick quarantine zone established by USDA and causing the establishment of a host of temporary quarantine zones that currently affect over 500,000 acres of Texas ranch country.
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