Saturday, March 14, 2026

insect pest control

After Louisiana’s warm winter, watch out for more insect pests

By Blake Wilson and Sebe Brown Populations of pest insects are often influenced by factors at play well before crops are planted. Winter mortality is a key regulator of spring insect populations, particularly for pests introduced from tropical regions. The 2018-2019...

Gone viral

Targeted, environmentally friendly approach enlists beneficial organism to control corn earworm in soybeans. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Monty Bohanan, who farms with his brother, Derek, near Stuttgart, Arkansas, likes to joke that the biological worm control they tried on soybeans in...

Year of extremes took a toll on Arkansas soybeans and rice

A year of weather extremes — from a hard-frozen winter to a summer of drought to seemingly endless rains in the fall — took its toll on both rice and soybean, two of Arkansas’s top crops. Rice, however, emerged...

EPA registers new BASF insecticide

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Inscalis insecticide from BASF to control piercing-sucking insect pests in a number of row and specialty crops, including soybeans. State registrations are pending. As many crop-protection companies have begun doing, Inscalis is the brand...

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