CATCH THE BUZZ – 2018 Irrigation and Water Management Data now Available!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2019 – There were 231,474 farms with 55.9 million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water applied in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Free Planting Guides for Farmers Planting Cover Crops, and, Florida Wants a Honey Bee License Plate.
Bill Spiegel – Successful Farming Staff Farmers who want to start growing cover crops can turn to “recipes” on the Midwest Cover Crops Council website….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Don’t Poop Where You Eat, and, It’s Been Cold in Calgary This Season.
A Bouquet of Result A photo of a bee poop spot (the bright pink) on flower petals. Photo credit: Jonah Bodden, and, Bee footprints…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Walmart is All Abuzz about Bees and Butterflies.
By: Marianne Wilson – September 3, 2019 Walmart has planted 21 pollinator gardens at retail locations throughout Oregon, Washington and North Carolina. The gardens…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Three Today Planted Acres in US Down, Farm Bankruptcies in US Up, and Ohio Butterflies Declining. Is There a Connection?
USDA reports show historic unplanted acres The USDA released reports Aug. 12 confirming the historically-dire planting situation and correcting previous acreage estimates. From Farm…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Apply for Trees Forever’s Pollinator Habitat Conservation Grant, and, Wild Salmon Actually Tell Tales About Lead in the Environment.
MARION, IOWA-The natural habitat for butterflies, birds, bees and other pollinators is slowly being replaced by turf lawns and ornamental plants, but Trees Forever…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – THREE TODAY!
Honeydew Exposes Beneficial Insects To Deadly Insecticides. Adjuvants Not As Benign As Previously Thought Verges Provide A Vital Refuge For Pollinators According to a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – TWO TODAY!
• Funding Available Monarchs and Pollinators, and… Ashley Langreck AgriNews Publications • What Makes Areas Near a Tree Inhospitable for the Survival of its…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Listen to Tammy Horn Potter Talk About Her New Book Flower Power. Establishing Pollinator Habitat on www.beekeepingtodaypodcast.com
BEEKEEPINGTODAYPODCAST.COM Presents Tammy Horn-Potter talking about her brand new book FLOWER POWER. Establishing Pollinator Habitat. In 1997, after completing a PH.D. in literature, Tammy…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – NRCS, UC Davis Announce Release of SoilWeb 2.0 App Update. What Soil are You Standing on, Right Now?
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2019 – USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the University of California at Davis Soil Resource Laboratory today announced the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. University Park, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bee Colonies More Successful By Foraging on Non-Crop Fields.
By: Kim Kaplan – ARS News Service A bee gathering pollen and nectar from a helianthus flower. TUCSON, ARIZONA, March 20, 2019—Honey bee colonies…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manuka Plant Samples from 1769 Still High Quality and Easy to ID.
Alan Harman Robust oil gland linings in historical mānuka samples collected during one of Captain James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand 250 years ago…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.Org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ag Lands Have Less Diverse Pollinator Species Than Natural Lands. Go Figure.
Alan Harman Apple orchards surrounded by agricultural lands are visited by a less diverse collection of bee species than orchards surrounded by natural habitats,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Prairie Strips Transform Farmland Conservation Converting Low-Profit Land Brings Big Returns.
American Society of Agronomy Prairie Strips Are Composed of Native Perennial Plants and Located Across Hillslopes. Credit: Lynn Betts Modern agriculture’s large monoculture fields…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Announcing an Incredible Beekeeping Job in Connecticut at a Very Unusual Location.
From the Editor: Before I moved to Ohio for this position, I lived for a time in Connecticut. My background was in horticulture, and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Computers Could Tell Farmers and Other Landowners Where to Most Efficiently and Cost-Effectively Plant Trees and Hedgerows for Pollinator Forage and Housing.
By: Alan Harman Planting more hedgerows and trees could hold the key to helping bees thrive again, a new study argues. Researchers at Lancaster…
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Chicory
By: Connie Krochmal Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a common wayfarer that occurs over much of North America. The plant is most common in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Which is Most Important to Establishing Invasive Plants – Proximity to Seed Sources, Canopy Disturbance, or Soil Disturbance?
Cambridge University Press IMAGE: A Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose) recruit, along with Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle), in a treefall gap in the SERC upland forest,…
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