Photo: Joseph L. Murphy/Iowa Soybean Association
Reports of damage from the soybean gall midge are on the increase in the western soybean belt. Farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota are seeing damage from this relatively new insect.
Drew Clemmensen, a regional agronomist for the Iowa Soybean Association, says researchers are scrambling to come up with a control strategy, but haven’t found a “silver bullet” solution yet.
“In-furrow insecticides, seed treatments, post-applied insecticides, playing with the rates—upping the rates one-and-a-half to two times—and nothing seems to be phasing this pest at all,” Clemmensen says.
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