CATCH THE BUZZ – Too Much Ammonia (POOP)
Nitrogen Crisis From Jam Packed Livestock Operations has Paralyzed Dutch Economy. Dutch farmers have protested a ruling that curtails the expansion of livestock operations…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Mechanical Pollination
Successful field trials of Edete’s artificial pollination technology advance entry into the huge California almond market About 75% of the world’s crops rely on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Buzz- Blaming Farming Practices
Iowa Study Offers New Insights on Honey Bee Health in Ag Landscapes Ames, Iowa — Iowa State University Extension experts say honey bees are…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Needs Your Donation
Hello! The Bee Informed Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to research and collect honey bee health surveillance data and make…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – OREI Seeks to Solve Organic Ag. Issues
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative The Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) seeks to solve critical organic agriculture issues, priorities, or problems…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Berea College, Bee Campus USA
Berea College Recognized For Supporting Pollination By: Stu Johnson Berea College is now officially certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program. The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beekeeping Sweetens Depressed Economy
Beekeeping Sweetens Depressed Economy in W.Va. Coal Country, Detroit By: Jean Lotus Beekeeping collectives in Detroit and West Virginia coal country are providing economic…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonic Crisis Counter Point & Farmers Get 12.1 Cents of a Dollar on What You Spent on Thanksgiving Meal
Challenging Media Narrative About the ‘Birds and The Bees’—Neither Faces Serious Threats from Neonicotinoids or other Crop Chemicals Jon Entine | November 19, 2019 Parents…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Pollinator Friendly Plantings Along Roads and Highways.
United States Senate November 20, 2019 Contact: Martina McLennan/Ray Zaccaro (Merkley) – 202-224-3753 Merkley, Alexander, Carper, Rounds Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Create Monarch and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Family Pet in Training as Detector Dog to Prevent Devastating Bee Disease American Foulbrood.
ABC Newcastle By: Anthony Scully Hunter Valley apiarists Sam and Bianca Giggins are waging a personal battle with bee disease American foulbrood (AFB) with…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Happy Thanksgiving!
From All of Us at Bee Culture, We Wish You and Your Family a Happy Thanksgiving!
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ- If The ‘Shrinking’ City Phenomenon Is A Good Thing, It’s Bees.
Open Spaces Make Detroit the Place To Bee. Written by Robert Smith If the “shrinking city” phenomenon in Detroit is good for one thing,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – On The Greek Island of Ikaria, Where Life Expectancy is Among the Highest in the World, Residents Credit the Local Honey.
Not far from the picture-perfect tourist hubs of Santorini and Mykonos, where cruise ships unload tourists by the thousands, sits another Greek island, more…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Israeli Students Make Fake Honey.
The Technion team’s synthetic honey is produced by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, which ‘learns’ to make honey following reprogramming in a lab. By: Brian…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape – Get a Bees Eye View of Your Landscape.
Dear Bee Enthusiast, Greetings from the Beescape Team! We are writing to inform you about the “Beescape” bee management and conservation platform. You can…
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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 – Researchers Have Analyzed How Paralysis Virus Hijacks the Cellular Protein Production Machinery and Misuses It for Its Own Purposes
The Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus is a pathogen that affects honey bees and has been linked to Colony Collapse Disorder, a key factor in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Are Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Critical for Protecting Crops—or Unnecessary, with Potential to Harm Bees?
By: Paul McDivitt Neonicotinoids, the world’s most popular class of insecticides, have been making headlines for the last decade due to concerns that they negatively…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Grimshaw Beekeeping Family Awarded 2019 BMO Farm Family Award.
Emma Mason, Staff The Mighty Peace Honey farm in Grimshaw (Supplied by Andrew Dickson) A family of beekeepers in Grimshaw are one of 13…
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