This is bad news for some farmers in the Eastern Corn Belt, who use crop rotations between soybeans and corn to control the pest. Because the new variant thrives in soybean fields, it increases the ...

If you know anything about raising crops, you know that insects and weeds constantly evolve and build resistance to existing methods of controlling them Now, new research targets the western corn ...

Next year’s corn rootworm pressure is already taking shape. For growers who want to stay ahead of it, the time to measure ...

A study from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment offers fresh insights into a billion-dollar problem for U.S. corn producers each year. New research ...

Corn rootworm (CRW) adults are showing up across many Midwest fields now and actively feeding. In some fields, it’s to the point that corn pollination is being adversely affected. The question now – ...

NASHUA, Iowa — Corn rootworm is often called "the billion dollar pest." "It may be even more," Ram Shrestha, an Iowa State University post doctoral entomology research associate, said at the Northeast ...

A recent article in The Progressive Farmer sounded an alarm about the re-emergence of the corn rootworm, a beetle was once called the “billion dollar pest” due to the big impact it has had on valuable ...

A destructive insect's growing resistance to genetically modified corn seeds is costing American farmers as much as $2 billion annually, and now U.S. regulators may weigh in on the matter with moves ...

Every year farmers spend a lot of money trying to control corn rootworm larvae, which are a significant threat to maize production in the United States and, more recently, in Europe. Researchers have ...

Farmers in parts of the Midwest face a high potential for significant corn rootworm pressure in their fields this season. That’s according to work conducted by the Corn Rootworm IPM Regional Working ...