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The Call We're Already Getting From the Texas Panhandle The phone is ringing at the Bradley 3 Ranch outside Memphis, Texas, and at operations like it across twenty-six counties — Potter, Randall, Hall, Childress, Collingsworth, Hardeman, Donley, Briscoe, and on east to the Oklahoma line. On the other end is a voice we've heard before, in different forms, in different decades: a rancher whose family has worked the same land for three or four generations, who just lost cattle, fences, hay, equipment, and in too many cases pregnant cows and the calf crops that were supposed to carry the operation forward. Sometimes the loss came from the Smokehouse Creek wildfire in 2024 — the largest in Texas history, which killed more than fifteen thousand head of cattle in a single week. Sometimes it came from drought that has stripped pastures to dirt. And now, in 2025 and into 2026, a new threat has crossed the border from Mexico and is moving north: the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that can reduce a healthy animal to one that has to be destroyed in as little as seventy-two hours from the moment a female fly lays its eggs in an open…