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Gophers latest menace to Central Illinois cornfields

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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