The Environmental Protection Agency is refining habitat maps and mitigation options for growers to ensure crop protection ...

1. Insect pollination and biological pest control simultaneously influence crop yield, but are often investigated individually. This can lead to under- or over-estimation of the importance of ...

Regardless of planting choices, few farmers escape genetically modified crops. More than four-fifths of U.S. soybean, corn, and cotton acres are planted with them, according to The Associated Press, ...

Inoculating crops with beneficial rhizobacteria has been shown to reduce insect pest damage by priming natural plant defence ...

As agriculture in the United States evolves, it's becoming more intensive and less complex. That means larger fields, more cropland and less crop diversity with fewer crops in rotation. Ecological ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 19, 2020) A new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) finds that crop diversity in commercial agriculture is just as essential to ...

Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African maize ...

In a new study, which examined the landscapes of pests radiating from GMO crops, researchers found that GMO crops are enabling non-GMOs to flourish with fewer pesticides. GMOs have a bad reputation , ...

Manu Saunders is affiliated with Institute for Land Water and Society, Charles Sturt University. Gary Luck receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Rebecca Peisley is affiliated with ...

Stanislaus County has almost 10,000 acres of tomatoes in production, yielding a harvest valued at $53.5 million in 2022. Joan Barnett Lee Modesto Bee Stanislaus County supervisors declared a local ...