Grasshopper problems

If you’ve got grasshopper problems now, you’re probably going to continue to have them until this fall. That's according to an entomologist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist. Dr. Allen Knutson says “As we get into the hot, dry summer, more and more of the grasshoppers' wild host plants –- weeds and wild grasses — dry up, and that forces them into our crops, especially irrigated fields.” He adds that some producers have already had to re-treat two or three times to protect crops.