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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced what it says is the first implementation of a biological opinion as part of an ongoing Endangered Species Act review on agriculture chemicals.

The first detections of adult soybean gall midge have been discovered in the trapping network. Farmers should begin monitoring fields in the next two weeks in areas with a history of pressure.

Pesticide shortages and high prices will likely persist through the 2022 spray season with glufosinate and glyphosate in particularly tight supply.

Saltmarsh caterpillars, fall armyworms, soybean loopers and redbanded stink bugs preyed on soybeans in 2021. Heres how to control these pests.

A growing number of soybean and sorghum farmers are deploying bioinsecticides that spread a caterpillar-killing virus throughout fields to control podworm and headworm.

Agricultural groups wrote a formal objection to EPA, making the case that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is vital to helping a variety of commodities reduce pest risks for crops. EPA revoked the feed and food tolerance levels for the pesticide, effectively banning its use for agriculture.

A warm winter, lots of storms and chemical failures and shortages combined to let fall armyworms wreak havoc this year.

The EPA effectively banned agricultural use of chlorpyrifos (Lorsban) Wednesday by revoking all food tolerances for the controversial insecticide.

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