BASF is promoting a new corn rootworm insecticide as another “tool in the toolbox” to battle one of the ag industry’s most difficult pests that continues to grow more tolerant of current management practices.

At a showcase plot tour this summer at the BASF Story City Research Farm, more than 100 growers and dealers learned from BASF experts about innovative tar spot and soybean cyst nematode treatments, down-the-road herbicide developments and seed treatment...