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2010-05-Fifth Month-News

 

Jul 25, 2010 Aug 1, 2010 Grasshopper Explosion in Montana this Year

 

Tom Lutiv at the Billings (MT) Gazette had a report that the CROP KILLERS - Grasshoppers in Montana the worst in 25 years which said that Southeast Montana has it bad this year with grasshoppers.  Lutiv cited “Shayne Galford, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service added ‘I was out in Golden Valley County and they had a count of 64 (per square yard). That’s high.’ Any area with 15 or more grasshoppers per square yard is considered problematic by APHIS standards. Those numbers translate into more than 72,000 hoppers an acre, enough to challenge a cow for forage on Montana’s dry ranges where a single bovine might scour 5 acres to satisfy its daily diet of 30 pounds of grass. At 64 hoppers per square yard, the insects become a voracious force, easily striping 29 pounds of forage from a single acre.”