Kansas farmer concerned about early onset of fall armyworms

A north central Kansas farmer says an unusually early invasion of fall armyworms could threaten his alfalfa crop. Shale Porter tells Brownfield he’s seen the pest about six weeks earlier than normal. “We took our third cutting off. We’re going to have to apply an insecticide on that. We have fall army worms about every […]

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