Pest pressure is a top concern for eastern Iowa farmer

After facing corn rootworm pressure in 2021, eastern Iowa farmer Lance Lillibridge had to come up with a game plan for this year.

He tells Brownfield crop rotations are not always the answer. “We need to make sure we’re rotating our technologies between insecticide, crop rotation, and traits,” Lillibridge said.

But, Lillibridge has yet to start planting. “We have all of our seed still in bags,” he said. “We have not planted anything.

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