In the heat of July, scouting for pests is part of the job for northern Indiana agronomist Marc Eads. While weather plays a role in pest pressure each year, this year, it isn’t insects giving farmers ...

Corn rootworms can pack a one-two punch. The larvae can burrow in soil and feed on unsuspecting corn roots, or the adult beetles can snip silks and upend pollination. Both infiltrations result in ...

LE MARS, Iowa — After a rough start to the growing season for Iowa’s corn and soybean crops and spotty showers throughout the summer, crops are starting to be stressed in northwestern Iowa. “This ...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is ...

Kansas cotton fields are entering the critical squaring phase, so Kansas State University agronomist Logan Simon and entomologist Anthony Zukoff say timely scouting will be essential to protect yield ...

Researcher Michael Bredeson tells attendees at the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society conference in Fargo, North Dakota, that when farmers seed cover crops between corn rows, that can ...

DAVIS, Calif., Dec. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Field trials in 2021 for Marrone Bio Innovations’ (NASDAQ: MBII) next-generation product for environmentally sustainable control of yield-robbing pests ...

Intercropping – the practice of planting mixtures of crops – can be an effective pest management tool worldwide, a new University of Florida study shows. The analysis compiled results from 44 field ...

I’m sure many of us are more than happy to close the 2024 season and pray for more timely rains in 2025. This year, margins are looking to be just as, if not tighter, than last year. Over the last ...

Bt corn is engineered to produce proteins from the soil bacterium that kill pests but are not toxic to humans or wildlife, explained Tabashnik. Bt corn targeting rootworms was first introduced in 2003 ...