In the face of resistance and crop shifts, producers can turn to Belt insecticide. Strong demand has driven up peanut prices and as a result about 25 percent more acres were planted this year in the United States. To capitalize on lucrative contracts,farmers are looking more than ever for ways to protect the seed investment and maximize yield potential. One of those ways is to control worm pests that can cause yield losses. Peanut growers know the considerable toll that armyworms, bollworms/ear-worms, budworms, cutworms and other hungry Lepidoptera can take on their fields. Collectively, they cause economic loss that university entomologists measure in millions.
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