As biodiversity declines on corn farms, pest problems grow
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Teeming with insect life?Oregon Department of Agriculture, CC BY-NC-NDBiodiversity performs critical ecosystem functions that cannot be replaced indefinitely by technology, such as pesticides and herbicides. This includes a diverse population of insects on farms.
In a study of corn farms across the Northern Great Plains, we found that farms with...
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