An insidious pest has been infecting cattle just over the border, in Mexico. "Tick riders,” a 120-year-old group of mounted ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – Kansas State University is monitoring an invasive tick that has appeared in the Sunflower State, which can make infected cattle carriers for life of a tick-borne parasite. “This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red Angus beef cattle eat from a trough at a central Iowa farm in 2018. A parasite that can kill beef cattle has been detected in ...

More Iowa herds have tested positive for a tick-borne parasite that can sicken and kill cattle, but experts said they still do not expect the illness to become widespread across the state. Grant ...

STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — A heads up for cattle producers: there’s a deadly tick in the United States, and researchers at Oklahoma State University are concerned. “These ticks can be so high on a ...

ZAPATA, Texas (Border Report) — At 82 years old, longtime rancher Renato Ramirez knows the South Texas borderlands. And on a recent day as he looked across the Rio Grande to Mexico he fretted. A group ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - According to Texas A&M AgriLife, there is another parasite that can harm a wide range of animals, particularly cattle. It’s called the Asian Longhorned Tick, and when ...

It’s been eight years since the Asian longhorned tick was first discovered in Arkansas, and a team of researchers has learned ...

Theileriosis, a disease carried by Asian longhorned ticks, has been detected in Iowa cattle for the first time. The disease can cause anemia and death in cattle, but it poses no risk to humans. Cattle ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — A heads up for ...