As agriculture in the United States evolves, it’s becoming more intensive and less complex. That means larger fields, more cropland and less crop diversity with fewer crops in rotation. Ecological ...

Using modern technology ensures farmers can produce more efficient, maximum crop yields, and now there’s a new tool of the trade—a smartphone app that helps growers keep damaging pests at bay. The new ...

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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2021) Cover crops create habitat that draw in pest predators and help mitigate crop injury, finds research published in the journals Agroecosystems and Biological ...

Intercropping – the practice of planting mixtures of crops – can be an effective pest management tool worldwide, a new University of Florida study shows. The analysis compiled results from 44 field ...

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and ...