WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Volunteer corn can act as a safe harbor for some pests by expressing lower doses of the insecticide found in newly planted corn, according to Purdue University researchers.

This week, Corteva Agriscience unveiled plans to introduce a new corn premix herbicide and a new soybean insecticide seed treatment to farmers in 2022, pending federal registration by the U.S.

Pesticide use is surging among U.S. farmers who are worried about insect resistance to Bt corn. But scientists warn that overuse of chemicals may create a worse problem down the road. Pesticide use is ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common seed treatments produced no improvement in crop ...

Coming up on AgweekTV, we will talk about the EPA banning an insecticide that is important to the region and what that means for farmers. We will kick off our Agweek Corn and Soybean Tour in Minnesota ...

A sure sign of summer is freshly harvested sweet corn. This vegetable is No. 1 in terms of acreage planted in Lancaster County, and probably many other counties in Pennsylvania as well. While the ...

“This is the first paper published showing offsite benefits to other host plants for a pest like the corn borer, which is a significant pest for many other crops like green beans and peppers,” study ...

Insecticides similar to nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, were found commonly in streams throughout the Midwest, according to a new study. This is the first broad-scale investigation of neonicotinoid ...

AMVAC Chemical Corporation, Newport Beach, California, has announced the launch of Force 10G HL insecticide for field corn, seed corn, sweet corn and popcorn. Force 10G HL has a reliable pyrethroid ...

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it is going to continue to allow a pesticide called chlorpyrifos that interferes with mammalian brain ...

Steward EC insecticide has a mode of action shown to be effective in controlling Western corn rootworm adults in field trials. At high infestation levels, adult beetles can cause damage by feeding on ...