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 ...

The Midwest’s cold winters play an important role for farmers: They prevent devastating crop pests such as corn earworms and corn borers from becoming established in their fields. Corn earworm pupae, ...

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 ...

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 ...

RALEIGH – For the past 25 years, U.S. farmers have been able to use genetically modified crops that produce their own pesticides. Among other things, this meant that farmers were able to grow healthy ...

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

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 ...

Engineers at a northeastern university have developed a homegrown semiconductor chip designed to deter red spider mite ...