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

Corn rootworm caused more than 342 million bushels of yield loss in 2024. That’s over 80 million bushels more than losses from all other invertebrate corn pests combined.¹ It’s a challenging pest to ...

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 ...

Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientist Ana Maria Vélez is pioneering a genetic treatment to contain western corn rootworm. The research seeks to contain agricultural pests by targeting ...

An analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 U.S. Corn Belt states reveals that farmers suffer economic loss from the over-application of genetically engineered corn designed to combat rootworm pests.

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 ...

Learn more about the economic thresholds for insects in corn and soybeans. Plus, when should you scout for each insect?

NASHUA, Iowa -Western corn rootworms in northeast Iowa have shown resistance to the Cry3Bb1 strain of Bacillus thuringiensis found in the YieldGard rootworm corn trait. Aaron Gassmann, Iowa State ...

Tailored traits are customizing corn hybrids so rapidly and precisely that it is almost ceasing to be a monocrop. Last year, a paper published in Science magazine detailed how 26 corn genomes have ...

The results from a couple of field surveys that were conducted recently across the area have been released. We've been surveying for two insect pests for a number of years to give producers an idea of ...

“Most of the corn seed currently produced in the U.S. is transgenic and includes genes for insect control,” said Gould. “Enlarging refuges will require more seed without corn rootworm control genes.