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Heather Schlitz

Champaign, Chicago

Reporter at Reuters

Reporter at @Reuters. Commodities trading/agriculture.

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  • 2 days ago | aol.com | Maria Tsvetkova |Heather Schlitz |Julie Ingwersen

    By Maria Tsvetkova, Heather Schlitz and Julie Ingwersen(Reuters) -A Michigan court has scheduled a bail hearing on Thursday for a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological samples into the United States. Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, who conducted biological studies in the same field, were accused of smuggling a fungus into the United States for research.

  • 2 days ago | today.westlaw.com | Julie Ingwersen |Maria Tsvetkova |Lincoln Feast |Heather Schlitz

    (Reuters) -A Michigan court has scheduled a bail hearing on Thursday for a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological samples into the United States. Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, who conducted biological studies in the...

  • 4 days ago | kfgo.com | Heather Schlitz

    By Heather SchlitzCHICAGO (Reuters) – New World Screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, is traveling north from Central America to Mexico and has crept past biological barriers that kept the pest contained for decades, experts said. Washington halted cattle imports from Mexico in May, citing the insect’s spread further into Mexico, about 700 miles from the Texas border.

  • 1 week ago | independent.ie | Heather Schlitz

    Instead, many went to a local Indiana slaughterhouse for less than $200 each after the Chinese buyer cancelled the order within a week of China implementing retaliatory tariffs against the US in April. China is one of the biggest importers of American breeding pigs and other livestock genetic material such as cattle semen. These lucrative niche export markets had been growing, but dried up since US President Donald Trump started a trade war with Beijing.

  • 2 weeks ago | reuters.com | Tom Polansek |Heather Schlitz

    Livestock remain in pens before being exported to the U.S. through the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing, as the U.S. allowed Mexican cattle imports to resume after lifting a temporary suspension due to the detection of the New World screwworm, at the Chihuahua Regional Livestock Union facility, outside Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,...

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23 May 24

RT @tpolansek: Two US dairy workers contracted bird flu in the past two months Many farms have not yet provided employees with extra prote…

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14 May 24

beautiful day to be in Kansas! Wheat looks nice in the northwest plus @jp_gilp took us to the center of the continental US #wheattour24 https://t.co/PWPzl1V3Ng

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28 Oct 21

RT @nichcarlson: New from, um, @alexonicoll, @JamesRoday, @dangeiger79, @taylormborden, @tashslyons, @durosettastone, @britneyngu, @britney…