AgTech startup announces new digital sensor with features that include remote field monitoring and real-time insect classification.

While it would be nice if the cold temperatures we are experiencing could help to reduce our potential for pest damage, past experience tells us that the most serious pests we deal with are unlikely to be impacted much by these conditions.

Alfalfa weevil remains active across the state and potato leafhopper is bound to arrive in the coming weeks. Scout fields to understand your local populations.

Scott Meers, insect management specialist for Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, discusses the need for canola growers to keep an eye out for unwanted pests due to cooler soil temperatures being seen across western Canada.

Late-planted corn and soybean are likely to be more susceptible to insect infestations, which may have consequences this year and into the 2015 growing season as well.

For the past few years, folks in Pennsylvania have heard reports from Midwestern states of continuous corn growers struggling to control populations of western corn rootworms that developed resistance to some Bt corn varieties.

Although insect pest problems have been relatively minor this year, farmers should stay vigilant and continue to scout corn and soybean.

Record-high populations of alfalfa weevils are present this year. Monitoring for alfalfa weevils has been conducted since the last week of April and it wasn't until the last week of May that significant numbers were observed.

Purdue research indicates that yield increases in soybean from fungicide and insecticide applications to soybean are inconsistent.