Stanislaus County supervisors declared a local emergency Tuesday over a pest that threatens to decimate tomato crops. A small insect called the beet leafhopper feeds on tomato plants and spreads a ...

Roughly 90% of all processed tomatoes grown in the U.S. come from California — but this year’s crop is being threatened by a tiny bug in the San Joaquin Valley. The beet leafhopper transmits a disease ...

Vestaron Corporation is a leading agricultural biotechnology company specialising in the development of peptide-based crop protection products. The tomato leafminer has been known to cause yield ...