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Gophers latest menace to Central Illinois cornfields
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The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
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May 14, 2003
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Move over corn rootworm, European corn borers, soybean cyst
nematodes and bean leaf beetles. Gophers - specifically striped
ground squirrels - have increasingly become the scourge of many a
Central Illinois cornfield.
One Livingston County farmer recently advised his colleagues to
get them before they steal newly planted corn seed.
Kevin Black, Growmark Inc.'s insecticide specialist, shared a good
news/bad news scenario. Most of the havoc wreaked by the quick
critters doesn't add up to much on the economic damage scale.
However, the agronomist has seen gophers eat as much as an acre of
corn seed. University of Nebraska specialists estimate gophers damage
cornfields yearly to the tune of $2 ...
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