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While there’s no reason for alarm, a pair of Kansas extension agents are urging the state’s sorghum producers to be on the lookout for a couple of pests that have recently shown up in this ...
Sugarcane aphids have been found in sorghum recently in 10 counties from Kiowa County north to Grant County, but none have been reported at treatable levels. “Oklahoma is seeing the benefit of ...
Grain sorghum producers are reporting sugarcane aphids in the High Plains, but the pest has made little impact on the Texas crop during 2020, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ...
The sugarcane aphid has been a serious pest for sorghum in the United States since 2013, causing damage in multiple ways. First, aphids use their needle-like mouthpart to pierce the plant and suck ...
Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage.
One corner of Larry Lambright's research project contains a cluster of wilted sorghum plants, devastated by hungry sugarcane aphids. But next to them stand a group of healthy leaves, tall and brigh… ...
When Winter squeezed the chemical trigger on a sugarcane aphid army, he didn’t know he was protecting bin-busting grain: the best sorghum crop of his life. Big Yields and Tiny Aphids in ...
Last year, some sorghum producers saw heavy yield losses due to sugarcane aphids. The pest spread to 36 Kansas counties, making it close to the Nebraska border, according to Kansas State University.
Last year, the tiny, yellowish, goo-oozing sugarcane aphid surprised the sorghum industry by marching across a large swath of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas into areas it had never been seen before ...
Any farming decision is a gamble, but grain sorghum’s basis was too tasty for Hunter Byrd to ignore in 2015. With the numbers penciling out to good profit, the 27-year-old Dundee, Miss ...
Last year was a fairly good one for sorghum, according to the United Sorghum Checkoff Program. ... 2016 in sorghum: Aphids still trouble, market grows for people food. JOSIE MUSICO.