Farmers looking to gain the upper hand over corn rootworm (CRW) pests have new tools to deploy in the field, thanks to Ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) technology. RNAi works in CRW as it feeds on ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has deregulated Bayer's new GMO corn trait designed to fight corn rootworm. The post USDA ...

Corn rootworm is rearing its tiny head in abundance in a growing number of corn fields in the Corn Belt, according to experts in the field. University of Minnesota Extension corn entomologist Fei Yang ...

AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...

Durastak, Syngenta’s latest innovative corn trait stack for corn rootworm protection, has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and will be available in hybrids from both the Golden ...

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on the approval of a corn variety genetically engineered to resist western corn rootworm and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides. The ...

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Corn rootworm, often called “the billion dollar bug,” is considered the greatest insect pest threat corn growers face. Damage from corn rootworm outpaces that from every other invertebrate pest ...

HILLS — The corn rootworm is called the billion-dollar pest, a rough estimate of how much money U.S. farmers spend annually to keep it at bay. The best weapon they've ever had is a genetically ...

Volunteer corn is more prevalent in the 2022 growing season and can cause some yield losses, but Bruce Potter, an integrated pest management specialist at the University of Minnesota Southwest ...

The largest problems with corn rootworm are in areas where continuous corn is grown. Where crop rotations are used in central Illinois, for example, western corn rootworm populations are “pretty low,” ...

If you garden anywhere near a cornfield you have our sympathy. We have heard from some gardeners who are blaming soybean aphids for destroying the blossoms on flowers starting around the middle of ...