The federal grasshopper suppression program that has operated on Western public lands for decades needs an update. The current program, managed by the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ...

A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal agriculture officials are ...

A federal judge has ordered USDA to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of its grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression program in the West within two years. The agency’s Animal and Plant Health ...

Little rainfall and high temperatures were already taking a toll on Craig French’s northern Montana rangeland. Then, grasshoppers took out half his pasture land, starting with the clover and alfalfa ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shows a male migratory grasshopper. (U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant ...

BILLINGS, Mont.BILLINGS, Mont. — A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers.

A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal agriculture officials are ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal ...

Oregon Department of Agriculture staff say the agency’s program to control grasshopper and Mormon cricket infestations is severely underfunded. The department’s grasshopper control program was ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- As Oregon’s grasshopper and Mormon cricket hatching season begins, the Oregon Department of Agriculture is providing one-time funding to help combat the expected severe outbreak.