06/09/26 Afternoon CommStock Report – Cattle Stuff-Watching for Buzzards

In late 2024 my wife and I were asked by friends to accompany them to visit the White House at Christmas. The last-minute invitation came from college friends, he is now the Mayor of Madison South Dakota. He had worked with the Biden White House on an infrastructure program that brought water to the Madison municipality and had received a special invitation for a White House Christmas tour. It was a fortuitous opportunity to tour the East Wing as it is no longer there, having since been razed to the ground by President Trump for his new ballroom. One thing I remember about this trip, though, was the plane ride home. One of our adjacent passengers, with whom we conversed, turned out to be a USDA scientist/official. She was on her way to Mexico. They were worried about the screw fly outbreak, and she was heading down there to assess the risk. She told us that at one time there were 3 labs set up to produce sterile flies which is how they’d controlled it. They had pushed the fly south to Panama. Then for whatever reason—most likely cost-cutting—they closed two of the labs. This has proved to be the…