On a working homestead, the wrong caliber is more than an inconvenience, it can mean wounded animals, damaged buildings, and ...

What’s crawling around your corn fields? If you haven’t ventured out between the cornstalks lately, several pests could be feeding on your precious corn without your knowing it. Bob Wright, extension ...

Farmers’ most powerful weapons in the battle against the potentially devastating Western corn rootworm are being threatened as the insect evolves to eat corn plants engineered to produce its own ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corn rootworms, pests responsible for billions of dollars in yearly crop losses, are evolving resistance that weakens even the latest biotechnology controls, according to a new study published in the ...

CHICAGO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Populations of insects that feed on corn and other crops in the United States may flourish and expand to new territory as global climate change brings warmer summers and ...

As summer moves along, the season is running according to plan for many Arkansas crops -- including annual pest issues. Extension specialists and county agents across Arkansas are seeing an increase ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Populations of insects that feed on corn and other crops in the United States may flourish and expand to new territory as global climate change brings warmer summers and milder ...