Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...
Bt cotton is a genetically modified crop that produces an insecticidal protein toxic to the devastating cotton bollworm pest, reducing the need for broad-based sprays that can kill beneficial ...
Invasive insect species bring a host of health, social, ecological and economic consequences, including crop damage, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem disruption, human disease ...
Capturing the full value of your soybean crop takes more than just harvesting them at the right time in the fall. Proper soybean storage is critical for protecting your hard-earned yield from ...
(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 ...
Keen vegetable gardeners are never quite done tackling pests. There are likely plenty of pests you haven't heard of until you come face-to-face with the damage they cause, like bean seed flies. These ...
By John LovettUniversity of Arkansas System Division of AgricultureFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as ...
PARMA — The mint stem borer has emerged as a threatening pest of Canyon County mint production, and with no insecticides registered to protect the crop, the region’s farmers lack tools to combat it.