How can you protect corn root health and improve your crop’s overall health and eventual yield? Learn about the threats to ...

A new study from Michigan State University shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a ...

Researchers have been working on validating a model for estimating damage functions. Every year farmers spend a lot of money trying to control corn rootworm larvae, which are a significant threat ...

Farmers apply insecticides in the spring to prevent this damage to their plants. "Corn rootworm damage diminishes after mid-July," Bledsoe says. "Environmental conditions from then until harvest have ...

In recent months, the rootworm has caused damage in fields planted with Bt corn, which is engineered to kill the pest, and, as the Progressive Farmer article points out, has “long been a stronghold ...

Charlie Sandager, who hosted the workshop on his farm near the town of Hills in southwest Minnesota, said he learned last summer just how seriously rootworms can damage corn's ability to stand.

This rating system allows you to quantify and compare rootworm damage among fields. A rating of 0.5 (one half of one node pruned) is considered unexpected damage to a pyramided Bt corn plant ...

Often, corn rootworm damage goes unnoticed until it’s too late. “There’s no reliable in-season rescue treatment once larvae are feeding below ground or adult beetles are present, so proactiv ...

Overall populations of rootworm have fallen thanks to Bt corn, but fields where corn is grown continuously give the pest an ideal habitat to develop resistance and damage crops. In the western states ...