MINNEAPOLIS — Corn that’s been genetically engineered to resist attacking borers produces a “halo effect” that provides huge benefits to other corn planted nearby, a new study finds. Because the ...

Given the corn price outlook, this is not the year to ignore any “sometimes a problem” pest like corn stalk borer -- especially if you’ve encountered it in corn before. It has a tendency to persist in ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- This corn turns out to be a good neighbor. Corn that's been genetically engineered to resist attacking borers produces a "halo effect" that provides huge benefits to other corn planted ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell University scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, ...

Genetically modified corn has dramatically reduced populations of a corn-eating worm pest and put more money in farmers' pockets. But... Genetically Modified Corn Helps Common Kind, Too Fifty years of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Corn farmers could learn a lesson from cotton producers: Planting crops genetically engineered to be insect-resistant works in the short run, but also could increase the number ...

Sweet corn is one of the few crops for which insect pests drive most of the pest management program. A number of caterpillar pests attack sweet corn, infesting ears and rendering the ear and the whole ...

This corn turns out to be a very good neighbor. Corn that’s been genetically engineered to resist attacking borers produces a “halo effect” that provides huge benefits to other corn planted nearby, a ...

Fifty years of records from cornfields in five Midwestern states show that genetically modified corn has dramatically reduced populations of a common corn-eating worm, the European corn borer. That ...

Since the borers that attack the genetically modified crops die, there are fewer of them to go after the non-modified version.Given that the corn borer has cost U.S. farmers $1 billion a year, the ...