CATCH THE BUZZ – Bipartisan Bill Delays Hours of Service and ELD Enforcement for Reform.
Wyatt Bechtel – Drovers Two U.S. Senators proposed a bipartisan bill that would allow for reform of the hours of service and Electronic Logging…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Dropcopter Releases Pollination Results. Way More Fruit Using a Drone Than When Using Honey Bees.
Dropcopter, a drone AG startup based in California and Central New York, recently made headlines as the first company to successfully pollinate almonds, cherries…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Varroa Mites, Pesticides, Viruses, Pollination, Honey – a Beekeeper’s Life
Laura Reiley, Tampa Bay Times Rolling Stone Photo FORT MEADE — Jim Doan pats the bees gently with the flat of his…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – International Celebrations Mark Pollinator Partnership’s 11th Annual Pollinator Week.
Pollinator Week 2018 (June 18-24), marks the eleventh consecutive year of bringing greater awareness to the critically important issue of pollinator conservation. Pollinator Partnership…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Research Shows Impact of Bees on Coffee Productivity.
Bees and other pollinators play an outsized role in the world’s food supply, but it was often considered that their effect on coffee production…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – To Give Bees a Break, Farmers Pollinated an Apple Orchard Using Drones.
With bee populations continuing to decline, farmers, conservationists, and technologists alike are busy searching for a solution to help carry out pollination. A New…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – More Acres, More Almonds, More Business for Beekeepers. Record-Breaking Almond Crop Predicted for 2018.
In spite of concerns about freezing weather during almond bloom, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is predicting a record…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Farmers, Scientists and Beekeepers are Working to Raise Blue Orchard Mason Bees to Pollinate Valuable Orchard Crops.
Blue Orchard Bee (Osmia) Image Credits: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab via Flickr (Homepage Image Credit: Suzi Rosenberg via Flickr) Colony collapse disorder has devastated…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Robotic Bees Are a Real Thing—and the Company Funding Them Might Surprise You.
Bonnie Burton The buzz about pollination drones is more important than ever, and companies like Walmart want in on the action. When several types…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Almond Acreage in California Grows to Record Total – 1.3 Million Acres
California’s almond acreage grew 7 percent last year to a record 1.3 million acres, as the state continued its dominance as the world’s leading…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Economic Effects and Responses to Changes in Honey Bee Health.
Peyton M. Ferrier, Randal R. Rucker, Walter N. Thurman, and Michael Burgett What Is the Issue? Since 2006, annual winter losses of managed honey…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – More Bees Means More And Bigger Plums. Go Figure!
“The production areas of Chinese plums are located in Meishan, Sichuan; Maoming, Guangdong; Gutian, Fujian; and Guizhou province. Under regular weather conditions the plum…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Colony Health and Pathogen Composition in Migratory Operations Involved in California Almond Pollination.
Abstract – Honey bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops. Pathogens and other factors have been implicated in high annual losses of honey bee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ND, CA Working Together for Bees. Common Sense Might Just Win.
By: Sabrina Hill North Dakota Agriculture commissioner Doug Goehring is working with California’s agriculture secretary Karen Ross on a new program that will benefit…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Florida Beekeepers: ‘Fewer Bees Could Spell Higher Prices for Food’
By: Peter Bernard Bee keepers across Florida and the nation are wondering what the future holds. That’s because bees are dying by the millions and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Worldwide Importance of Honey Bees for Natural Habitats Honey Bees as World’s Key Pollinator of Non-Crop Plants – Maybe, Maybe Not. Read On….
Source Newsroom: University of California San Diego Credit: James Hung/UC San DiegoA honey bee pollinates a Carpobrotus edulis plant. The proportion of all floral…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Heat Patterns Serve As Signatures For Flowers To Passing Bees.
Heat plays an important role in flower-pollinator interactions. According to new research, heat patterns serve as signatures for flowers, advertising their availability to passing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – How Plants Form Their Seeds Is Complicated.
Pollen tubes with internalized, fluorescence-labelled signal substances (RALF peptides). Credit: UZH Vegetable, fruit, or grain – the majority of our food results from plant…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Market Glut Hits US Wild Blueberry Growers Badly.
2017 saw US prices for blueberries plummet. A market glut, fuelled in part by competition from high-bush blueberries, drove prices so low that farmers…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – More on the ELD Situation
Ross Courtney – Good Fruit Grower A load of honeybees arrives from California in April 2017 at Olson Orchards in Selah, Washington. Beekeepers worry…
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