INTERVIEW: Jon Skinner, Beck’s Regional Agronomy Manager
Corn rootworm pressure has increased in some parts of Iowa this growing season.
Jon Skinner, regional agronomy manager with Beck’s, says the state has seen a blend of Western and Northern Corn Rootworm infestations.
“With those two insects, you have different reproductive cycles, and you have different ways in which they have adapted to the environments to become resistant to those rootworm traits.”
He tells Brownfield crop rotation is typically the first method of management, but the rootworms have the ability to counter that approach.
