USDA-APHIS aims to protect hundreds of crops from invasive fruit flies with new comprehensive detection and exclusion plan.

Consecutive wet winters the perfect catalyst for blight spread by a family of fungi.

Between resistance and restrictions, fine-tuning a fungicide program grows in importance.

Data show early-season applications have helped produce a significant increase in crop protection activity thus far in 2024.

Controlling your berry farm’s environment is critical to reduce bird depredation.

While cover crops help growers overall, some choices can actually host plant diseases.

Hearsay proves true, as buzzing power lines really do attract spotted lanternflies.

Anaerobic soil disinfestation helps suppress weeds and disease without fumigants.

‘Devastating’ spotted wing drosophila pest draws crowds of beneficial wasps.

Multiple reports of the invasive pest around fields in Central Florida stand out as earlier than normal.

Contract research organization and university trials show up to 37% yield boost across 23 U.S. row and specialty crops.

But what’s the ideal temperature to kill the tree fruit pest without hurting the tree?

Hundreds of ag industry stakeholders learn about biologicals while walking the trade show floor and networking with peers.

Multistate scientific project supported by a $5.7 million grant from USDA NIFA.

Field conditions are dramatically different from lab conditions. Here’s the type of research we need to assess just how effective this new tool is.

Many almond growers who cut back last year got hammered by navel orangeworm.

The pepper weevil (Anthonomus eugenii) poses a significant challenge to pepper growers across much of North America.

Multiple market drivers and building demand might propel the global beneficial insects market to a billion-dollar industry.

More than half of growers reporting any pesticide application used biopesticides. See which crops are tops in treated acres.