CATCH THE BUZZ – Familiar Hover Flies May Be Transporting Honey Bee Diseases From Flower To Flower.
Bee diseases have been detected in hover flies for the first time. The brightly-colored flies may be picking up bee viruses as they forage…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bee Health Coalition Unveils First Ever Set of Tools, Resources to Help Soybean Growers Support Pollinators, Reduce Pesticide Exposure
Best Management Practices Include Information on Pre-planting Planning, Harvest, Use of Cover Crops ANAHEIM, CA, March 1, 2018 — The Honey Bee Health Coalition…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Haulers Get Another 90-Day Electronic Logging Waiver
Tom Karst Truckers hauling agricultural commodities have another three months of freedom from the Department of Transportation’s electronic logging device (ELD) mandate. The U.S….
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – United States Honey Production Down 9 Percent for Operations with Five or More Colonies in 2017.
United States honey production in 2017 from producers with five or more colonies totaled 148 million pounds, down 9 percent from 2016. There were…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – 16 Grants Totaling $7 Million for Research to Address Declining Pollinator Health, an Ongoing Threat to Agricultural Productivity in The United States.
Geoffrey Williams, Ph.D., Auburn University assistant professor of entomology and plant biology, is leading a FFAR Pollinator Health Fund grant to study the interactions…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – ARS Scientist Leads $1 Million Funded Consortium to Seek Honey Bee Disease Controls.
By Kim Kaplan March 13, 2018 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Steven Cook will be leading a $1 million funded international consortium of scientists…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Queen Rearing Class with Jennifer Berry. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Are you tired of wasting money on queens that don’t survive, behave badly, or don’t perform? Do you want to raise local stock? If…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Study Finds Parallels Between Unresponsive Honey Bees And Human Autism.
Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds. Credit: Julie McMahon – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Honey bees that…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Insecticide Treated Cornfields Had 10 Times More Insect Pests Than Regenerative Fields
Dear Friends, In early March, we released a peer-reviewed study that challenges many of our preconceptions about how we manage our food production systems…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Sick Bees Eat Healthier.
James Cook University Dr Lori Lach, Senior Lecturer at JCU, said the study compared the feeding habits of healthy bees to those…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Hedgerow Plantings That Feed Wildlife are Good For Farms, and Safe for Food.
Hedgerows enhance wildlife abundance and diversity around farmland without contributing to food safety problems in field crops, according to a new study published by…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – More Bees Means More And Bigger Plums. Go Figure!
“The production areas of Chinese plums are located in Meishan, Sichuan; Maoming, Guangdong; Gutian, Fujian; and Guizhou province. Under regular weather conditions the plum…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Farmers Trained On Using Herbicide Blamed For Crop Damage.
By: Steve Karnowski – Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of soybean and cotton farmers across the country are taking free but…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – The SEED A LEGACY Program Provides A Unique Opportunity To Establish High Quality Pollinator Habitat.
Critical pollinator and wildlife habitat is disappearing. YOU can help reverse the trend! New in 2018! The SEED A LEGACY program provides a unique…
Read MoreDraft Guidance for Industry: Declaration of Added Sugars on Honey, Maple Syrup, and Certain Cranberry Products. COMMENTS WANTED!
How to Comment The comment period opens March 2, 2018. Although you can comment on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR 10.115(g)(5)),…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – California’s Drought Restrictions on Wasteful Water Habits Could Be Coming Back — This Time They’ll Be Permanent!
Sprinklers spray water on lawn of an east Anaheim home during mid-day on April 3, 2015. New water-wasting restrictions could become permanent in the…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Psyllid Zapper, Resistant Trees Among Tactics To Combat Florida’s Citrus Greening.
Paul Ivice – THE NEWS-PRESS The Asian citrus psyllid is seen in this University of Florida photo provided by the University of California, Davis….
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – NZ’s Honey Industry is Booming, Which Has Led to Brazen Thefts Which Police Believe May Be The Work of Organized Crime Groups.
By: Sam Hurley New Zealand’s honey industry is losing millions of dollars every year as organised thieves target the hives and manufacturers of the…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – B.C. Apple Grower Aims for Billion-Dollar Harvest.
By: Glen Korstrom Okanagan Specialty Fruits president Neal Carter founded his company in the Okanagan before selling it to U.S. biotechnology giant Intrexon. Okanagan Specialty…
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