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When grasshoppers are eating as much grass as your cattle, it's time to find a new way to control them. According to research, grasshoppers consume as much as 22 percent of available rangeland forages every year. And there are some years when ranchers are grateful to lose that little.
For decades, researchers and ranchers in Wyoming have been working together to find an effective, affordable insecticide to control grasshoppers without seriously damaging a rancher's cattle, land or budget. Dimilin®, an insect control product from Crompton, looks like the answer to a lot of prairie prayers.
When applied at the low rate of one-ounce per acre, Dimilin can deliver 90 percent or greater control of grasshopper infestations at a fraction of the cost of other, less effective insecticides.
Because of its uniquely narrow spectrum of activity, Dimilin poses no threat to birds, fish, bees and other beneficial insects, and is no danger to people or livestock. According to Wyoming rancher Jim Hageman, "It works so well I figure we'll be spraying several thousand acres next season."
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