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Young County reviews Resolution 124 urging federal action on New World screwworm fly
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a draft resolution (Resolution 124, FY2025) asking federal agencies to accelerate production of sterile insects and emergency feed authorizations to address a projected New World screwworm threat; no vote was recorded in the transcript excerpt.
Young County Commissioners Court considered Resolution No. 124 (FY2025), a formal call for immediate federal action to address the threat of the New World screwworm fly to livestock, wildlife and the rural economy.
The resolution’s text, presented to the court, asserts that the fly ‘‘poses an imminent and severe threat to livestock, wildlife, and the economic stability of Texas’’ and cites a projected arrival in Texas by July 2025 and movement northward by the end of the summer. The draft urges the president and federal agencies to authorize rapid production and distribution of sterile insects, to convert federal facilities to breed sterile flies within two weeks, and to expedite emergency approvals for use of ivermectin dry premix in livestock and wildlife feeds.
Why it matters: the resolution frames the issue as one with potential economic and conservation impacts, and it asks federal leaders and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration to take immediate authorization and production steps. The presentation referenced statistics in the draft resolution describing statewide livestock and wildlife numbers and asserted large potential economic losses if the infestation spreads.
Transcript discussion noted local interest in the draft; the court discussed that other counties are taking similar actions and that juvenile probation staff and local media had called attention to the issue. The excerpted record does not show a formal vote or adoption of Resolution 124 during this meeting; one commissioner thanked the introducer for bringing the matter to the court’s attention and the court moved on to later business.
Ending: Commissioners considered the draft resolution and its federal requests during the meeting but the transcript excerpt does not record a vote or final disposition of Resolution 124.
