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Pest Management

Quick count for H. zea in sorghum

The Sorghum Headworm Decision Support System is provided as a tool for sorghum producers, crop consultants, and others involved in sorghum insect pest management. The system was designed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Oklahoma State University, West Texas A&M University, and Kansas State University. The system can help you identify sorghum pests, learn more about their biology, and determine the economic threshold for headworms in your sorghum field. You can print a sequential sampling form for use in sampling your field.

Rapid scouting procedure for sugarcane aphid

The ability to reliably and simply assess a pest population is critical to delivering an economical, environmentally responsible IPM system (Bechinski, 1994). There is no research-based, user-friendly scouting system for this aphid, because it is so new to sorghum. It was estimated that 989,000 acres of sorghum were treated with an insecticide for control of SCA in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas (Bowling 2015).

e-Hartstack trapping for H. zea in sorghum

The goal of this project was to expand our electronic trapping and monitoring system in Kansas and evaluate the ability of our trap design to predict severity of infestations in nearby sorghum fields. The proposed research project will increase producer profitability and enhance the agricultural industry by providing sampling tools and an early warning system to alert sorghum stakeholders of pest activity in sorghum, thus helping protect yields from a major sorghum pest.

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