Behold the soybean aphid. This native of Eastern Asia can pack a heavy punch and knock the top of your soybean yields. Adult soybean aphids are small (less than 1/16" in length), yellow- bodied ...
Last year, 90% of Matthew Fitzgerald’s 450 acres of soybeans were infested with soybean aphids. An organic farmer in Hutchinson, Minnesota, Fitzgerald is one of many whose livelihoods have been ...
Soybean aphids may be small, but they find strength in numbers. With a common economic threshold of 250 aphids per plant, farmers could easily see scenarios where a 100-acre field could literally ...