JIM SMITH-DAILY DEMOCRAT, Courtesy of AgAlert Did you know – pollination has become the top income source for beekeepers nationwide—accounting for $338 million in…
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Caroline Macdonald of Food Dive Dive Brief: Almonds were the number one nut used in global new food products for the 10th straight year…
Read MoreAlan Harman The future of the famed Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture is in doubt after Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature voted to cut all funding…
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By: Jessica Louque Honey Daze This was going to be the year. We were determined to harvest honey this year. I hadn’t had a…
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By: Ross Conrad The relationship is a complicated one… The honey bee has an interesting relationship with fungi. Some fungi are harmful to bees…
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By: James Tew Robbing or swarming? A couple of things that I feel I need to say. Odds and Ends – Hot bees and…
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Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Liquid nitrogen is very cold – between -320° and -346°F. And it’s not cheap, but Katie Lee told me you…
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MDA Continues to Lower Yield Estimates for Corn, Soybeans, and Spring Wheat “Rains are currently pushing across the west central Midwest; however, a drier…
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TROPHALLAXIS Trophallactic interactions can frequently be seen non-randomly between all members of the colony. Trophallaxis, the transfer of food by mouth from one individual to another,…
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Minerals And The Bees’ Needs Rachael Bonoan and colleagues at Tufts University have been studying the impacts of salt and other minerals on honey…
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TEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) – Deputy agriculture minister said over 80,000 tons of honey are produced annually in Iran two percent of which…
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Lisa Cumming I recently had a chance to visit the National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) in the small town of Beaverlodge, Alberta, which is…
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For the study – funded by Hort Innovation and Plant & Food Research and the Australian Macadamia Society (AMS) – researchers conducted a trial…
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By: Adam Voiland An Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal. Image Credit: CDC/James Gathany. Though mosquitoes are small, they…
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Researchers from RMIT University, Monash University, the University of Melbourne and Deakin University have discovered a new mechanism in the bug’s brain for processing…
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By Erica Peterson Predicting the imminent arrival of an insect species that could devastate Kentucky’s sweet sorghum crops, the state Department of Agriculture has…
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By: Robin McConchie Bees in the United States and Europe are starting to evolve through natural selection to survive a mite that has been…
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A worker honeybee fitted with a RFID on its back so researchers can record when it enters and leaves the colony. (York University photo…
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By Adam Russell, Texas A&M ALOGA, OKLAHOMA – Donning his beekeeper suit, Charles Touchstone, of Arapaho, Oklahoma, stepped a few feet inside a buzzing…
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WASHINGTON, June 23, 2017 – Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today authorized emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands in Montana, North Dakota…
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