The beetle can feed on a wide range of plant materials, including perennial plants, flowers, vegetables and field crops. This year we received a call from a crop consultant in Elkhart County that was seeing a lot of grub damage in sandy soil of irrigated first-year corn, said Christian Krupke, Purdue Extension field crops entomologist. The grub lives underground and feeds on roots, while the adult feeds on plant foliage. The fact that the field had previously been soybeans means the adult...

Paul Another week of above normal temperatures last week helped the rapid maturation of small grain crops, according to the weekly crop report from the Minnesota field office of the U. Along other crops, spring wheat acreage was 93 percent jointed, with 46 percent headed, compared to the average of 72 percent jointed and 31 percent headed. The condition of most crops fell slightly from a week ago, although nearly all the areas of the state received some rain during the week. The report,...

coli last year, touched off renewed debate about food safety when investigators linked the illnesses to peanut butter made at a ConAgra Foods inc. plant in Georgia. The CDC said the rate of new infections has tapered off and it urged people to immediately discard any remaining jars of Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter with a product code beginning with 2111. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had linked 288 cases of food-borne illness in 39 states to peanut butter consumption....

Crop and Food want to field test broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and forage kale genetically engineered with the toxin derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) He said any release of GM products would not only threaten the certified organic brand, but could also jeopardize New Zealand's clean, green image. This is the lowest level at which genetically modified organisms can be technically detected. Crop and Food are likely to apply for further field trials, including onions,...

Bromenshenk goes on to say the other symptom they found was the cluster would not feed themselves, even when there was plenty of food present or introduced. It was the 54th annual Beekeepers Field Day Friday and the discussions centred around the problems apiarists face trying to keep their hives and colonies healthy and productive. Honey bees have always faced threats and perils from the natural world such as nosema, viruses, fungi, varroa mites, predatory wax moths and hive beetles. Many...

The floodwall's freeboard, an extra 3 feet of wall above the river's crest in 1936, was what saved the city as the Susquehanna crested at nearly 35 feet, just inches below the top of the wall. Milton, with no flood protection system, was the hardest-hit community, and P. The storm caused more than $12 billion in damage, $59 billion in today's dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster until that time. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The storm...

The money funds orange juice and other citrus advertising and research on crop management. The department proposed the highest levels in at least a decade to step up those efforts in an industry beset by fruit disease, storms and drought. The per-box tax rate for grapefruit, both fresh and processed, remained unchanged from last year at 35 cents. The song popularly known as Swanee River is a famous tune, but it's been criticized for its allusions to plantation life that some believe are racist.

Growers discuss steps to better protect their citrus crops from this fatal bacterial disease. That's the major message that came out of Thursday morning's seminars on greening, a fatal citrus bacterial disease, at the 2007 Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference sponsored by Lakeland-based Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest growers representative. That's the major message that came out of Thursday morning's seminars on greening, a fatal citrus bacterial disease, at the 2007...

TARAPOTO, Peru -- Brown, denuded hillsides dot the landscape, cleared by poor farmers to grow coca or food crops where dense jungle once stood in subtropical north-central Peru. These calls come amid the release of an annual report published last month by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization showing that from 2000 to 2005, the rate of destruction of forest in Latin America and the Caribbean had risen to 0.51 percent of overall land, up from 0.46 percent during the 1990s....