As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the US Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Spensa Technologies Inc., a precision agriculture technology company, and Spectrum Seed, a premium, non-GMO seed company, announced a partnership Tuesday (March 28) that allows ...

An invader destroying maize in Africa is hitting countries where drought and political instability have already caused hunger. Virginia Tech’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest ...

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.

DAVIS, Calif., Dec. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Field trials in 2021 for Marrone Bio Innovations’ (NASDAQ: MBII) next-generation product for environmentally sustainable control of yield-robbing pests ...

In small plantings, you can open the end of an immature ear, remove the corn earworms with tweezers, and secure the husks back in place at the tip with a clothespin. This article is part of our ...

Western and northern corn rootworm remain the Midwest’s most economically damaging insect pests in corn production, and their impact is growing as resistance undermines once reliable control tools.

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 ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76 million bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...

A type of corn marketed by Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. is failing to live up to promises that it prevents a damaging worm from feeding on the crop, according to a group of insect experts. Corn ...

Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early start to Spring. One of the most important things that we can do to implement Integrated Pest Management is to anticipate pest issues. If we can anticipate a ...