Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

Most central Minnesota crops have fared well this spring. Producers were able to complete small grain plantings early, but some fields are showing signs of stress due to cool temperatures. Winter ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

A few fields of early planted soybeans have emerged; be watchful for early season feeding of bean leaf beetles. The beetles overwinter as adults and will migrate to those first few emerging bean ...

We are receiving numerous reports and also observing very large bean leaf beetle populations this year. As a result, there is also a lot of concern about soybean defoliation due to the emergence and ...

Bean leaf beetles have been a common pest found in south central and southwestern Minnesota. This year the beetle was also found in southeastern Minnesota, but at lower densities. The bean leaf beetle ...

It is important to keep a watchful eye out for the two-spotted spider mite, especially as we head into some very hot and dry weather in the near term. Because we are well ahead of schedule this spring ...

Do you know why the vegetable band sounded a little off at the concert the other night? They were missing a beet. On any given summer evening, you can usually find me in one of two places. I’m either ...

Columnist Don Kinzler answers questions about what may be causing holes in rose and bean leaves and how to determine how recent, brief rainfalls affect how much we should water our plants and lawns ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Look up "early bird" in the dictionary and you might find a picture of an Indiana soybean farmer. A survey of Hoosier soybean producers by Purdue University found that growers ...