Syngenta has announced the names of three foliar-applied insecticide brands for its in-season insect management portfolio in ...

Corn rootworm forecasting is a bit more complicated than alfalfa ... though hopefully in lower initial numbers. Monitoring for moth migration will still be important this year, such as the University ...

Farmers are wondering how winter conditions impacted overwintering pests like corn rootworm. Iowa State University Extension agronomist Meaghan Anderson says she’s been asked about the insect a lot in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The overuse of Bt corn, genetically engineered to combat corn rootworm, is diminishing its effectiveness and reducing farmer profits in the U.S. Corn Belt ...

The root of a corn plant injured by corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Midwest. Photo by Erin Hodgson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed ...

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology's effectiveness and some farmers' profits. The ...

Penn State researchers discover flavonoids make corn earworm larvae sick. New herbicides and a bioinsecticide show promise. AI takes on SCN.

resistance to GE crops developed in pests like the western corn rootworm (monoculture creates ideal habitat for pests), and there was a subsequent surge in pesticide sales, along with revenue ...

Global corn stocks have hit a record low and supplies keep falling, with ING analysts predicting a further tightening over the current 2024/25 season. “Global ending stocks this season are estimated ...

If butterflies are the beauty queens of the insect world, moths are their drab and pesky cousins—or so you may have thought. It’s true that most moths are nocturnal, so you’re more likely to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 19, 2025) In a major win for small-scale food producers and peasant farmers in Kenya, “the Kenya Court of Appeal blocked the Kenyan government from importing genetically ...