Family
CATCH THE BUZZ – Hot And Dry Across The Northern Plains And Northwestern Midwest In Recent Weeks Diminishing Yields Of Corn, Soybeans And Probably Honey.
MDA Continues to Lower Yield Estimates for Corn, Soybeans, and Spring Wheat “Rains are currently pushing across the west central Midwest; however, a drier…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – Considering That The History Of Agriculture Is Thousands Of Years Old, Commercial Beekeeping And Its Importance To Agriculture Is A Relatively New Development.
By Nick Weber BECAUSE ALL THE POLLINATOR WEEK BUZZ’S DIDN’T FIT INTO POLLINATOR WEEK For Michael Hill, who grows blueberries at Southern Hill Farms…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Program Helps Nonprofits Innovate New Certification for Bee-Friendly Farms
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2017 – A new certification program enables agricultural producers to let consumers know they are farming in ways that benefit bees….
Read More
Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque The Necessity of Morel-ity If you ever ask Bobby what his favorite ______ is, he will say “free” for his answer. When…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide greater flexibility in nutrition requirements for school meal programs in order to make food choices both healthful and appealing to students
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide greater flexibility in nutrition requirements for school…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – Too few blueberries means too little pollination requirements, and too little leatherwood honey means a crop gone missing
There gloom at opposite end of the planet over the outlook for honey producers. In Canada, The Chronicle Herald newspaper reports Nova…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – Bees face heavy pesticide peril from field edges, drift, long residue chemicals…from nearly everywhere
Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University Honey bees – employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season – encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides,…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – Citrus Greening Found in residential tree in Orange County , CA. 55th found so far.
By Jim Offner The Packer Huanglongbing (HLB) has been confirmed in a residential citrus tree in Southern California, and officials are expanding the area…
Read More
Varietal Honeys Are Worth The Bother
By: Ann Harman If the weather and the plants and the bees cooperate then you may have three or four opportunities to collect and…
Read More
Bigger Picture – Lent
By: Jessica Louque Practice What You Preach – Teach What You Practice We are currently in the midst of the Lenten season in the…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Planned Plantings this year of just 4 crops to total 284 million acres, 116 million more than all of Texas!
Released March 31, 2017, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Corn Planted Acreage Down…
Read More
Bigger Picture
By Jessica Louque Spring Seeds Part 2 – High Mowing Seeds As mentioned in some of my previous articles, High Mowing Seeds is another…
Read More
From a Beekeeper’s Wife-
The Farm, March 1, 1917. Dear Sis, Rob is making out the order for new beekeeping supplies for this year, and while he does…
Read More
Bee Kid’s Corner
Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Spring Seeds Part I – Johnny’s Selected Seeds I’d say most of the readers for Bee Culture would consider themselves at…
Read More
PERMACULTURE- Can It Save The Bees, And The Beekeeper?
By: Darlene Bentley A little over two years ago we settled with our bees into a valley home near the northern end of a…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – New Loans Available For Small, Beginning, Urban Growers
Christina Herrick USDA announced the availability of a streamlined version of USDA guaranteed loans, which are tailored for smaller-scale farms and urban producers. The…
Read More
CATCH THE BUZZ – Reconsidering the weed
James Wolfin and Sam Bauer, University Of Minnesota, Extension The turf lawn accounts for nearly 2 percent of the continental United States land cover,…
Read More
Bee Kid’s Corner
Send all questions, photos and artwork to: beebuddies@hotmail.com or mail to the above address. Produced by Kim Lehman – http://www.kim.lehman.com https://www.beeculture.com
Read More