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A joint US-Panama facility in Panama breeds and sterilizes roughly 20 million New World screwworm flies a week. The sterile flies are released over the Darién Gap to stop the pest moving north toward livestock in North America.
This barrier protects the US cattle herd from a parasitic disease that would reduce livestock supply and trade if it spread north. Its continued operation supports stable cattle supply.
nationalgeographic.comJason BittelDec 11, 2019After 69 past neutral disease events, LCATTLE moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (42% higher; middle half -0.8% to +0.6%), and +0.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
