shiftyandquick said:
RGV AG said:
When we moved to the Valley in the early 80's, around 82', and for years after that you would see all the signs along the roads and such. My memory fades nowadays but I want to say that the place making the sterile fly's in Mission, it was at the old Moore Field airbase, was in operation until the mid-80's when it was all transitioned to Mexico. There were news stories and articles and I wanna say someone I grew up with had a dad involved in it.
As a kid my parents would drive back and forth from CDMX to Houston, and other parts, at least 2 to 3 times a year. On those trips there were always several agriculture checkpoints on the Mexican highways, I remember those. We usually traveled with dogs and if the check point saw the dogs in the car they would pull you over and inspect. Surprisingly enough crossing the border with dogs in the 1970's, and according to my parents in the 60's as well, was a much more formal deal, it was nothing in the 80's through the 20's. I now believe it was due to the screw worm, but I was too young to know.
There were strict quarantine areas and controls in Mexico for years (that lots of folks circumented I am sure). In the late 80's and through the 90's when I was spending a lot of time roaming around Northern Mex, and doing as much hunting and fishing as possible, I know ranchers would occasionally run into screw worm issues but they were very secretive about it as they had no faith in the MexGov to help them with it.
Where I lived in Central America it was around, and never went away completely, but it was not treated with the dire alarm that we are seeing in the U.S.. Why? I have no idea. I am not an ag man at all, so all of this is just purely observation from an unknowing point of view.
In the quarantined areas now, all transported warm-blooded animals are required to be inspected before they can leave the area. That includes pets (e.g. dogs).
I am not concerned at all about this, but this may be the place (as always) to settle this with my wife. She is concerned that we are taking our Pyrenees and Aussie to Concan next week to hang out on the river. We will be there 4 days. She is determined that the dogs have to be inspected before we can leave the county. I don't believe that to be the case in that they are not living in the county. (Unless they have a lesion or cut)
What say you TexAgs? If we have to get them inspected on the way back, we will do it, but if not, I contend that is so low risk that it is almost comical.
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