Smart strategies help farmers reduce insect management expenses while maintaining corn yield protection and profitability.

Research breakthrough extends storage time for beneficial nematodes that combat corn rootworm and other soilborne pests in ...

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Volunteer corn is more than just another problem weed that escaped farmers’ herbicide programs in soybeans this season. While that’s problem enough, volunteer corn can harbor a CRW population.

Infestations are more common in fields that were previously sod or grass. Rotating away from grasses lowers risk.

To slow resistance of western corn rootworm beetles to genetically protected crops, much larger "refuge" acreages of conventional crops have to be planted, two experts – including one from the ...

Someday – in some scientifically savvy encyclopedia perhaps – the word “resilience” may include a photograph of the Western Corn Rootworm. This crafty, intrepid rootworm has found a way to circumvent ...

Pests have always been a challenge for farmers because insects, fungi, bacteria, and rodents cause damage even on plants in natural ecosystems. Their impact in agriculture is of greater consequence ...

In most of extension service’s pheromone trap sites the first-generation European corn borer moth numbers peaked around the end of last month. Growers should be able to see the symptomatic leaf damage ...

Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study. Warmer growing season temperatures and ...

The fall armyworm (FAW) pest is seen inflicting losses in the local corn industry that can reach P20 billion, or about 20 percent of the total yearly output of the commodity in 2019, as it continues ...