A study from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment offers fresh insights into ...

Dr. Fei Yang, UMN Corn Entomologist, joined UMN Crops Educator Dr. Anthony Hanson for a discussion on corn insect pests. Dr.

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...

"This research is important because it may be an early step toward the development of corn lines resistant to insect pests ideal for organic production," said research team leader Surinder Chopra ...

Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.

Bill Sullivan, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in ...

The study shows pest pressures in much of the region ... The key difference is that insect-resistant corn carries an ongoing collateral price to pay along with out-of-pocket costs.

More research is needed before plant breeders could be expected to try developing flavonoid-producing corn lines that also ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather ...