The U.S. Department of Agriculture has deregulated Bayer's new GMO corn trait designed to fight corn rootworm. The post USDA ...

Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientist Ana Maria Vélez is pioneering a genetic treatment to contain western corn rootworm. The research seeks to contain agricultural pests by targeting ...

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Beetle capture data reveals pest numbers are rising, with 31% of sampled fields exceeding economic thresholds.

Corn rootworm is rearing its tiny head in abundance in a growing number of corn fields in the Corn Belt, according to experts in the field. University of Minnesota Extension corn entomologist Fei Yang ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corn rootworm remains one of the most damaging pests in U.S. corn production, causing an estimated $1 billion in losses each year. To help farmers get ahead of this ...

AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...

NASHUA, Iowa -Western corn rootworms in northeast Iowa have shown resistance to the Cry3Bb1 strain of Bacillus thuringiensis found in the YieldGard rootworm corn trait. Aaron Gassmann, Iowa State ...

If you garden anywhere near a cornfield you have our sympathy. We have heard from some gardeners who are blaming soybean aphids for destroying the blossoms on flowers starting around the middle of ...

Volunteer corn is more prevalent in the 2022 growing season and can cause some yield losses, but Bruce Potter, an integrated pest management specialist at the University of Minnesota Southwest ...

AMES, Iowa — Corn rootworms have been managed with crop rotation but some Northern and Western corn rootworms have adapted to corn-soybean rotations, says Jon Tollefson, chairman of the Iowa State ...