Dr. Rick Weinzierl reported last week in the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News that there appear to be pyrethroid resistant corn earworm moths in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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The European Commission today authorised the placing on the market of three genetically modified maize lines. Two of these, GA21 and MON863, were authorised for use as food and food ingredients. The third, MON863×810, was authorised for import and industrial processing.
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The European Commission today announced that it has approved the use of Monsanto’s YieldGard Rootworm corn (MON 863) and its processed products as food and food ingredients under the Novel Foods Regulation.
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Agents in Northwest Ohio focused on quantifying the distribution of soybean aphid in the area during the 2005 growing season. A speed sampling technique was tested for accuracy.
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Ohio conditions favor many soybean pathogens including seedling and root rots, soybean cyst nematode and Phytophthora root rot. During 2005 we also witnessed numerous foliar diseases, frogeye leaf spot, brown spot and downy mildew…
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After being fed a health dose of farm business management over the past few days, let’s reward ourselves with some fun stuff and take a look at the latest information on how to control cornfield terrorism from rootworms.
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The Iowa State University (ISU) Extension Agribusiness Education Program (AEP) is offering the Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) Exam Review Session in preparation for the upcoming CCA exam. The two-day review session will be held on Jan. 23-24 at the Memorial Union, on the Iowa State University campus.
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Two recent outbreaks of aflatoxin, the toxin that is prone to develop on drought-stricken corn, should alert farmers to make a New Year’s checkup on their grain bins, according to a University of Missouri grain handling expert.
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