An agronomist says corn rootworm has been an issue in parts of Iowa this growing season.

Meaghan Anderson is with Iowa State University. “In central Iowa they were not generally as bad – especially the westerns – as they were last year,” she said. “But we are still finding these pockets of problematic rootworm beetles, in particular the northerns are showing up even in some rotated acres.”

She tells Brownfield farmers should be scouting every cornfield late in the season to evaluate management decisions and prepare for next year.

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