Insects
This week, farmers in the Midwest are reporting crop extremes. Some say they have their best crops in recent memory, while others are making replant decisions.
The promise of biotech mosquitoes grabs the headlines, but the same technology utilizing genetically engineered (GE) insects is being tested on U.S. farmland.
Prior to Bt technologies farmers lost $1 billion annually to CRW—in the form of chemical costs or actual yield loss. With resistance to traits on the rise, it might nibble its way back to a billion-dollar price tag.
Here are recommendations for first-year corn and continuous corn.
Is the monarch butterfly population on the rise or is it declining? John Phipps takes a look at not only the population, but migration, of butterflies.
Scientists have already warned that climate change likely will impact the food we grow. But new research is showing that climate change is expected to accelerate rates of crop loss due to the activity of insects.
Answer these questions to help ensure you’re ready to treat pests in a timely fashion