# Recent fever tick outbreak unsettling, fed and state fight expands

> Cattle fever ticks have moved farther north into the Texas interior, violating a permanent USDA quarantine zone along the Texas-Mexico border. Temporary quarantine zones now cover over 500,000 acres of Texas ranchland.

- Date: 2017-02-27 · published 2017-02-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72440-recent-fever-tick-outbreak-unsettling-fed-and-state-fight-expands
- Commodities: [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Expanded quarantines restrict cattle movement in Texas and raise producer costs, a regional animal-health risk that could tighten local feeder cattle supply.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FCATTLE | 2024-11-29 | [Mexico’s Screwworm Outbreak Delays Mexican Cattle Exports Into the US Until After the First of the Year - Oklahoma Farm Report](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27349-mexico-s-screwworm-outbreak-delays-mexican-cattle-exports-into-the-us-until.md) | -1.5% | +1.0% |
| FCATTLE | 2022-05-20 | [Qld rain, Indo outbreak weigh on northern cattle export trade - Beef Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41341-qld-rain-indo-outbreak-weigh-on-northern-cattle-export-trade-beef-central.md) | +0.3% | +12.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2026-07-19 | [What the U.S. can learn from Mexico's handling of the screwworm outbreak - VPM](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18298-what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-mexico-s-handling-of-the-screwworm-outbreak-vpm.md) | -0.2% | -1.5% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-08-30 | [Screwworm outbreak cripples cattle trade, costs jobs and raises beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23284-screwworm-outbreak-cripples-cattle-trade-costs-jobs-and-raises-beef-prices.md) | -1.0% | -2.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-08-18 | [All-out effort to fight New World screwworm needed](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23286-all-out-effort-to-fight-new-world-screwworm-needed.md) | +4.1% | +3.7% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/livestock/fever-tick-fight-adds-expense-and-worry-for-texas-beef-producers

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