Crop Protection
Growers have been frustrated at having their integrated pest management plans thwarted by this destructive pest, but researchers still have faith.
Scientists map out areas around the world most suitable for establishment of the notorious crop pest.
Leading experts in pest management say removing and destroying mummy nuts is the best way to break the life cycle of this major pest.
Temperature, moisture, and wind patterns are so integral to a bug’s life that if you can better monitor these elements, you can predict crop protection needs.
Unique product to be available for crops including strawberries, blueberries, and almonds. Find out how it works.
Learn how to identify, the survival and spread, as well as management methods for this plant pest.
What you need to identify and manage this pest.
Latest crop of standout scientists, educators, and students to be honored for breakthrough work with bugs.
One knock to using beneficial bugs to control plant pests is the manpower to disperse them in the field — but modern tech may provide a solution.
See how predatory insects are helping protect crops the natural way.
Longtime UF/IFAS Vegetable Extension Agent Gene McAvoy is retiring, but his work in the field is far from over.
Requiem Prime to be distributed by Certis USA for help in fighting thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and mites in citrus and other specialty crops.
This weed can be a particular problem for all spring-planted vegetables.
Growers in the Golden State have another tool to help keep foliar plant pathogens at bay.
Learn how to identify, the survival and spread, as well as management methods for this plant disease.
Tufted perennial grasses can compete for resources such as nutrients and water and can hamper nut orchard establishment.
Environmental, medical, and labor organizations claim the widely used pesticide is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children.
Little cherry disease has researchers scrambling as it has returned to Washington with a vengeance, leaving growers with few options to prevent its spread.
ProBlad Verde from Sym-Agro claims unique mode of action that works with multi-process disruption to stop fungal maladies on specialty crops.