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State Ag Pest Coordinator Talks Impacts of Rains on Insect Population

How are pests holding up in all this water? Short answer. They’ll survive.

 

 

That’s state agricultural pest coordinator Kelly Estes. She says producers who utilize cover crops are being challenged this spring because it’s been tough to burn them down with the wet ground and that gives a certain insect a perfect place to set up shop.

 

 

Estes says she is also monitoring for both black cutworm and true armyworm as they are currently migrating in from the south.

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