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      "title": "USDA schedules Santa Teresa cattle-port reopening for September 24",
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      "title": "Rollins announces the Ranchers First Initiative to rebuild the herd",
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      "title": "USDA says the Douglas port will reopen to Mexican cattle in phases from August 24",
      "summary": "After more than a year of closure, Rollins said it was safe to reopen the Douglas, Arizona port in 30 days and resume cattle movement, with a phased schedule and a jointly agreed import protocol. Douglas would be the only crossing open, a fraction of the pre-closure trade.",
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      "summary": "Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suspended imports of live cattle, horses and bison through every port of entry on the southern border, after the flesh-eating parasite was found on farms about 700 miles from the US line. Mexican feeder cattle had supplied roughly 5 percent of US feedlot placements, and the closure removed that supply just as the domestic herd was already shrinking.",
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