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Beef Producers Offered Salvation by a Bacterial Soldier – Technology Networks

Buffalo fly is a serious animal health and production challenge. The only obstacle in its path is a biological control project using the insect-infecting bacterium,…

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Few beef producers in the temperate climate of southern Australia will have encountered the parasitic buffalo fly (Haematobia irritans exigua), a scourge of the cattle industry in the country’s tropical and subtropical north – but maintaining this state of affairs, and also lifting a burden off the northern industry, has become a race against time, and climate.
Buffalo fly is a serious animal health and production challenge, costing the northern Australian cattle industry almost $100 million a year…

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