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 ...

Weeks after announcing the invasive species, known as the cotton jassid, made its way into Texas, Agriculture Commissioner ...