CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Culture’s Pollinator Day. Free, Fun and Functional. The Bees Love it!!!
Bee Culture Magazine’s 4th Annual Pollinator Day to be held at Root Candles, Medina Tour our Pollinator Gardens on Saturday, July 21, from…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Resumes Continuous Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment. Another Year for Available CRP Land is Good News.
As part of a 33-year effort to protect sensitive lands and improve water quality and wildlife habitat on private lands, the U.S. Department of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA: Potatoes, Tomatoes and 5 More, Are America’s Top Vegetable Choices. None Need Honey Bees.
According to loss-adjusted food availability data from the USDA’s Economic Research Service, Americans consumed an average of 156.3 pounds of fresh and processed vegetables…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Texas A&M University Natural Resources Institute (NRI) is Promoting Statewide Land Stewardship Relating To Pollinators.
By: Alan Harman The Texas A&M University Natural Resources Institute (NRI) is working with other organizations to promote statewide land stewardship relating to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Dry, Arid West Is Moving East.
By: Christina Cooke from https://civileats.com/ In 1878, noted geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell observed that the 100th Meridian, the longitudinal line that slices…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 6 of 10 Top Honey Producing States Now Under Drought Conditions, Again!
By: David Montgomery The Pew Charitable Trusts Research & Analysis Stateline AUSTIN, Texas — Less than eight months after Hurricane Harvey pelted the Texas…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Declining Bee Population to Get Helping Hand with National Project.
University of Central Florida With a $338,613 grant from the foundation’s Pollinator Health Fund, UCF Biologist Barbara Sharanowski and her team will make native…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Newfoundland and Labador’s First Honey Bee Reserve Opens June 1.
By: Alan Harman Newfoundland and Labador’s first honey bee reserve opens June 1. Operated by Paul and Brenda Dinn, Adelaide’s Honey Bee, Pollinator and…
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CATCH 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…
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CATCH 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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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agriculture This Week – Canola Market Will Face Pressures.
Calvin Daniels – Yorkton This Week One truth about farming is that acres tend to flow to crops deemed to have the best chance…
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Corporate Potentials For Increasing Pollinator Habitat And Populations
By: Steven Payne Federal and state government programs in recent years have been announced and initiated to try to create better habitat and forage…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Flowering Cover Crops Stimulate Bees and Helps the Soil.
By Patrick Cavanaugh – Farm News Director California Ag Today recently interviewed Billy Synk, director of pollination programs for Project Apis m and manager…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Major Crops To Increase Acres In 2018. Conservation Land Still Short.
Julie Ingwersen U.S. farmers will likely plant a record amount of land with soybeans in 2018 along with a boost to most other major…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Tips to Maximize Almond Yield in a Wet Year. More Bees, and A Plant Growth Regulator.
By David Eddy, Growing Produce California growers enjoyed some welcome rain this past winter, but because it had been two full decades since such…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – For Every Additional Ton Of Carbon Dioxide Emitted, The Global Economy Loses Between US$3.50 And US$8.50 Due To Effects In The Agricultural Sector
New research overturns the idea that the short-term benefits of increased global emissions of CO2 on plant growth would benefit agriculture. Instead, the latest…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Zealand Exports Rise 5%, But Myrtle Rust Shows Up On Manuka.
New Zealand honey exports rose 5% to NZ$330 million (US$229.8 million) in the year ending last June. A Ministry for Primary Industries report…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pollinators Face Challenges From Environmental Contaminants, Disease And Parasites And Significant Loss Of Habitat.
By: Fred Miller, U of A System Division of Agriculture Moths feed on flowers in a test plot at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bees In The City: Designing Green Roofs Is One Way To Help Pollinators Get From Here To There And Not Run Out Of Food.
Catherine Howell, Research Assistant, GRIT Lab, University of Toronto; Jennifer Drake, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, and Liat Margolis, Associate Professor…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Growers Working Have Cloned The Strongest Medical Manuka Honey Available And Produce It On A Medicinal Honey Plantation.
Alan Harman Australian promoters are reported working on a project to clone the strongest medical Manuka honey available and produce it in a…
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