{"id":33866,"date":"2025-02-25T10:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=33866"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:27:32","slug":"study-led-by-schattman-determines-expansion-of-corn-crop-pest-in-new-england-a-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2025\/02\/25\/study-led-by-schattman-determines-expansion-of-corn-crop-pest-in-new-england-a-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Study led by Schattman determines expansion of corn crop pest in New England a possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While New England is well known for commodities such as maple syrup, wild blueberries and cranberries, its reputation for sweets extends to another crop: sweet corn. The 2023-24 crop production report<\/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the region produced just under 3 million tons of corn, of which Vermont contributed approximately half and Maine 500,000 tons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corn growers in New England could face a new challenge in the coming years. A study<\/a> from the University of Maine projected that a corn crop pest that is already present in the region may begin to have a more noticeable effect on crops as temperatures warm and winters become more mild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The corn flea beetle is a common pest in the Corn Belt \u2014 the north-central Midwest region expanding through Ohio, Nebraska and Kansas \u2014 that damages plant foliage and carries a bacteria that causes Stewart\u2019s Wilt, a disease that impacts crop health and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Schattman<\/a>, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at 91¸£Àû and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, led the study. Schattman and Scott Merrill, a systems ecologist at the University of Vermont, conducted their research by combining temperature forecasts with two existing agricultural models to show how changing climate could impact corn flea beetle infestations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from 91¸£Àû News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While New England is well known for commodities such as maple syrup, wild blueberries and cranberries, its reputation for sweets extends to another crop: sweet corn. The 2023-24 crop production report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the region produced just under 3 million tons of corn, of which Vermont contributed approximately half and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33869,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33866\/revisions\/33869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}