Weeks After Planting: Reported a Sharp Decline in the Corn Chicharrite Plague

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Less than a month before the early planting of corn begins and the beginning comes with good news, according to a report. After the last campaign saw the introduction of 2 million hectares less with cereal after the attack of the chicharrite in the previous cycle, the last survey of the National Network of Monitoring of the plague shows a “very significant regression of the plague” throughout the country.In the agroecological zone center south, …

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The early planting of maize began this week and the Argentine agricultural sector has just received an encouraging news for cereal. The latest survey of Dalbulus Maidis carried out by the National Network of Maize Chicharrita Monitoring Traps detected a decrease in the pest in all the productive regions. In the NOA, the proportion of traps with more than 100 adults captured was significantly reduced, from 60% to 23% among the report made between…

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One of the characteristics of maize in Argentina is that its presence extends throughout the four seasons, and with harvest and sowing tasks that are often spliced. This is what is happening today: when about 5% of the lots implanted with maize in the 2025/25 campaign are still being harvested, the first advances in sowing 2025/26 of early plantings are already being reported. “The first data on lots sown for the 25/26 campaign are beginning to …