Across the corn belt depending on time of year | I started work on the persistent biocontrol nematode project in 1990 when at Cornell University. Biocontrol nematodes were isolated from NNY fields at that time. Fields inoculated in the mid 1990s were still active when I retired from Cornell in 2022. Around 30 years. We use those NNY strains today for agricultural field across North America from the Canadian Maritime fields to Roswell, NM.
Interesting information from SD. I originally sent nematodes to SD researchers several years ago. It was not SDSU but USDA-ARS in Brookings. They were released in the field. So if they want to call them SD locally sourced, that is interesting. Such is science. That researcher was forced out by the Trump purge of USDA and is a real loss to Corn Belt agriculture. He just interviewed for my old job at Cornell. |
Biological Control of Rootworm - A link to a recent presentation
