As the use of biopesticides continues to increase at a staggering rate, more and more resources are being made available to the public to help increase awareness of the sector.

With the entry of major suppliers into the biopesticide arena, whether or not biopesticides work is no longer the question. Now, people want to understand how they work.

Yield and quality can be as important to growers as crop protection.

Learn how to ID, the survival and spread, as well as management methods for this vegetable disease.

Black leg, light leaf spot, and white leaf spot were discovered in Oregon fields according to reports from Washington State University.

With the phase-out of the popular soil fumigant, it’s important to know you have crop protection options.

Growers look for recommendations to keep fields clean in the absence of the long-used fumigant.

After growth in Israel, Phytech’s PlantBeat comes to California.

Growers place an emphasis on protecting the state’s fragile water resources.

A USDA scientist developed a soil test that measures soil nutrients, helping growers to better gauge the appropriate amount of fertilizer application.

L.A. International Airport inspectors confiscate 67 live specimens of notorious invasive pest from East Africa.

Growers can recuperate financial losses from natural disasters with the USDA’s Tree Assistance Program.

Research at Cornell University aims to understand onion thrips population traits, genetic diversity, and help you develop an ideal insecticide resistance management plan.

Some diseases may not show up this year because of the drought, but keep a watchful eye on insects feeding on your cucurbit crops.

Environmental and food safety groups express concern over honeybee health.

The organic spinach symposium, sponsored by Ready Pac Foods, Inc. addressed the sector’s sustainability efforts and concerns that have heightened as downy mildewspreads without treatment options in sight.

Researchers discuss current options for growers to keep cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus out of melon and other cucurbit crops.

Annemiek Schilder discusses how to treat the fungus effectively.

Janna Beckerman of Purdue University details pruning approach, MaryBlyt software updated.