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5 Ways to Keep the “Billion-Dollar Bug” from Stealing Corn Yields

By Noah Newman posted on May 14, 2025 | Posted in Crop Protection, Soil Health

“When you approach the rootworm as just a problem that has to be solved, you’re not taking into account the animal’s biology,” Ann Marie Journey says. “You’re hitting it just at certain points or with certain methods or controls, and you’re not allowing yourself in effect to have a conversation to gain insight back from the rootworms about what it is that makes them successful in any given place."

Billon-Dollar Bug: Building Corn Rootworm Resiliency

By Noah Newman posted on July 6, 2024 | Posted in Crop Protection

The “Billion Dollar Bug” meanwhile is at it again across much of the Corn Belt. The corn rootworm risk level is high, according to the latest Pest Report from InsectForecast.com

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NewLeaf Symbiotics Introduces EPA-Registered Biocontrol Treatment for Corn Rootworm

The proven and first-of-its kind TS201 technology protects corn crop from the highly adaptable and devastating Corn Rootworm pest while driving yield advantage

March 6, 2024 | Posted in Crop Protection

NewLeaf’s TS201 technology introduces a new mode of action for CRW control, priming the plant’s own defenses to produce a compound that repels larvae at the root.

2024 Brevant Brand Corn Offers New Genetics & Traits

January 16, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: Brevant

The 2024 class of Brevant brand corn features 40 new products with industry-leading genetics and traits.

Positive Disruptors: New Tech for Defeating No-Till Pests

Insect, weed and fungal pests cost U.S. farmers billions of dollars every year. But new technologies and multiple modes of action are offering new hope to growers faced with increasing pesticide resistance.

By Julia Gerlach posted on July 23, 2021 | Posted in Crop Protection

Through natural selection, insects and other pests continue to thwart efforts to control them, developing resistance to sprays, seed treatments and even plant-incorporated protectants (PIPs).

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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Titan International, we catch up with young Kentucky no-tiller Quint Pottinger to see how he autonomously planted his entire crop in 2026. Senior editor John Dobberstein checks in from the CTIC Conservation in Action Tour in Scotland Neck, N.C., where no-tiller Zeb Winslow III talks about his multi-species cover crop program.

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