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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corn harvest in Minnesota (Image by Bob Pool, Shutterstock) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially deregulated a new ...

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology's effectiveness and some farmers' profits. The ...

You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

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 ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

The western corn rootworm continues to be on the rise in Europe. Why attempts to biologically target this crop pest by applying entomopathogenic nematodes have failed, can now be explained by the ...