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Producers from 26 counties used the scouting procedure the first
year of implementation. Over 200 producers forwarded scouting data
to University of Illinois Extension specialists for summarizing
and distributing statewide.
Cooperators will dig roots from over 75 fields scouted last summer
and participate in the 1999 Root Rating Program. Producers will
dig roots from check strips (control) in treated fields or from
untreated fields, and Extension educators will collect and transport
roots to campus, where Extension specialists will wash and rate
the roots.
Information obtained from this cooperative effort may allow further
refinement of the economic threshold. In 1999, an additional 3,000
Pherocon AM sticky traps have been distributed to producers interested
in scouting their soybean fields.
(More information about Corn Rootworms can be found on the Corn
Rootwom page of the IPM website.)
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