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 ...

You can’t build a farm shop on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a high-yielding corn crop with weak roots. Healthy corn roots enable efficient resource ...

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.

MSU researcher Felicia Wu finds a a variety of corn that can repel the pest is being overplanted in states like Michigan and Ohio. A new study from a Michigan State University researcher says one of ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corn rootworm remains one of the most damaging pests in U.S. corn production, causing an estimated $1 billion in losses each year. To help farmers get ahead of this ...

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 producer's best bet is to monitor for the beetle using traps," said John Obermeyer, a Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service entomology specialist. "That tool will let them know whether ...

From 2014 to 2016, yield losses attributed to rootworm damage amounted to 47.5 bushels per acre in western states and 8.5 bushels per acre in eastern states, the researchers estimated. The study ...