Winter means absolutely nothing for southern rust. It overwinters in the tropics, moving back into the Corn Belt during ...

If you're new to gardening, it's easy to underestimate how much pests can affect your squash plants. Try planting a trap crop ...

Scouting is a critical component of integrated pest management for soybeans — you need to know which pests are present to effectively manage them. Careful scouting for pests — both harmful and ...

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

Just like any other organisms, crop-destroying soil microbes die if they get too hot. With that fact in mind, scientists have developed a new system in which soil-heating microwaves are used to kill ...

It seems logical … winter temperatures take a stark nosedive and several rounds of snow follow. Come spring, the pests that were spending their winter vacations in your fields should all be dead, ...

Researcher touts hubbard squash as being effective against two species. I had the opportunity to attend my national meeting for county agricultural educators this past week. It was wonderful going ...

Ensuring we and generations to come have enough to eat in the face of climate change and consequent species migrations, involves the necessary evil of killing insects that destroy our crops.

A DRONE-ENABLED crop monitoring system research project is set to mitigate pest infestations and outbreaks in corn and onion ...

Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD ...