Sunday 27th July 2025

An extension integrated pest management specialist has some advice for farmers dealing with intense corn rootworm pressure.

Bruce Potter with the University of Minnesota tells Brownfield the timing has to be right when considering adult beetle control.

“You don’t really want to start until you see females that are full of eggs. You put a foliar insecticide on and it will take out that batch, but that emergence lasts over several weeks.

   

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