What We Do

DM Crop employee in corn field making observations.

Field Research

DM Crop offers highly productive research sites as well as sites established specifically for efficacy testing against major corn and soybean pests.

  • Insect Resistance Monitoring Collections (U.S. and Canada)

  • Field Trials of Agronomic Crops
    - Insect efficacy
    - Plant disease efficacy
    - Soybean cyst nematode efficacy
    - Seed treatment evaluations
    - Herbicide tolerance
    - Yield trials

  • Seed Increases
    - Hand pollinated corn nurseries
    - Soybean increases
    - Other oil and small grain crops

  • Special Projects
    - Coordination of multi-site research projects
    - Plant nutrition/fertilizers
    - Technology development
    - Demonstration plots
    - Expression studies
    - Plant and soil sample collections

DM Crop laboratory with small scale insect test cubes.

Laboratory Research

DM Crop facilities are designed to provide small scale insect production and laboratory assays of plant feeding insects.

  • Insect Assays
    - Discovery and resistance monitoring
    - Leaf feeding assays (Leps)
    - Diet bioassays (Leps and Corn Rootworm)
    - Whole plant assays (Leps, Corn Rootworm, Hemipterans)

  • Research-scale insect population maintenance and egg production
    - Species currently available: Western Corn Rootworm, Fall Armyworm

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Consulting

With 20 years of experience, DM Crop can help clients develop efficient R&D processes that meet regulatory and stewardship requirements.

  • Experimental Design

  • Protocol Development

  • Field Release Permits

Let us know how we can help you.