PLATTSBURGH — The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has announced the development of new protocols that make the use of New York-native persistent biocontrol nematodes for ...

This news comes from Cooperative Extension: Northern New York -- Cornell Cooperative Extensions of Northern New York will offer free hands-on training on the on-farm rearing and application of ...

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:02:09 GMT — Cornell Cooperative Extension agents are educating growers across the state about the use of native nematode worms to control destructive alfalfa snout beetles. Cornell ...

Alfalfa snout beetle was found last fall in a new, more northern area of Clinton County. Because alfalfa snout beetle is such a unique pest, only found in northern New York and southern Canada, Elson ...

GREAT BEND, N.Y. -- Each spring, tens of millions of alfalfa snout beetles rise from the soil to continue their slow, methodical march across upstate New York, laying waste to fields of alfalfa in a ...

Scientists have found naturally occurring pathogenic fungi infecting the Eucalyptus snout beetle in Eucalyptus forest plantations, and characterised them to develop a bio-pesticide for controlling the ...