The fungus, known as head blight, affects grains used to make bread, cereal and livestock feed, officials say.

The Texas Department of Agriculture has issued a warning to all residents about a dangerous fungus that was intercepted while ...

SAN ANTONIO - Texas leaders are warning farmers and families about a harmful fungus that could hurt the food we eat.It’s ...

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But then, things started changing. Weather patterns shifted. Pests became more aggressive. Crop prices bounced unpredictably.

Kenya's pesticide ban may spark a major food crisis in 2025. Experts warn of rising prices, crop failures, and the dangers of ...

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely grown crop in the world and provides 20% of the global intake of protein and calories. It is considered the primary staple food in Europe, North ...

-- Wheat for July delivery rose 1.5% to $5.43 1/2 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, with traders adding risk premium for much of the day even with little to no adverse weather ...

AAFC entomologist Héctor Cárcamo, who led the lygus bug study, points out it was common for farmers to use trap crops to control wheat stem sawfly before resistant, solid-stem wheat varieties ...

Some wheat crops are at the T3 timing and while ... with levels of black bean aphid and pea aphid being monitored in crops. Variable amounts of rain fell over the late May bank holiday weekend ...

Greenidea ficicola Takahashi and Greenidea psidii van der Goot (Aphididae: Greenideinae) are Asian aphid species newly introduced in Brazil associated with Moraceae and Myrtaceae. The feeding behavior ...