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