Capital Press

Commentary: Feds need to update grasshopper suppression program

The federal grasshopper suppression program that has operated on Western public lands for decades needs an update. The current program, managed by the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ...
Agri-Pulse

Western producers struggle with second-largest grasshopper outbreak in 35 years

Little rainfall and high temperatures were already taking a toll on Craig French’s northern Montana rangeland. Then, grasshoppers took out half his pasture land, starting with the clover and alfalfa ...
Capital Press

ODA: Department underfunded to combat grasshopper, cricket infestations

SALEM — Oregon Department of Agriculture staff say the agency’s program to control grasshopper and Mormon cricket infestations is severely underfunded. ODA’s grasshopper control program was designed ...
The Bulletin

State says it’s underfunded to combat grasshopper, cricket infestations

Oregon Department of Agriculture staff say the agency’s program to control grasshopper and Mormon cricket infestations is severely underfunded. The department’s grasshopper control program was ...
University of Wyoming

Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Distribution Atlas for Grasshoppers and the Mormon Cricket in Wyoming Although the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has conducted rangeland ...