Max Armstrong studies on a brand new drawback hitting California – grasshoppers. On high of drought and different challenges, now grasshoppers are chewing their method by key crops. Max shares the inhabitants is up because of the dry spring. Fungus ranges that preserve grasshoppers in verify are much less prevalent this yr, which has boosted their numbers. Max presents some attention-grabbing statistics of the influence of this bugs.
Max Armstrong’s Farm Progress America is a each day take a look at key points in agriculture. It’s produced and offered by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.
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