…A swarm of bees is, typically, the “old” queen from a robust colony and about half the workers. So that big pile of bees hanging off something is several thousand…
Farm City Newsday Monday, 03-23-20
…for bees and the second covering sustainability. Tune in to the show for these news stories and more. Danielle Leal Multi-Media Journalist & AgNet News Hour Anchor Sponsored Content Let’s Talk…
Almond Update: Cold Storage for Bees, Webinar on Benefits This week
Research is looking at cold storage for bees to help protect colonies against the varroa mite. The practice can stifle mite populations by temporarily slowing down queen bee egg-laying, which…
Almond Matters: Uniformity Compensates for Short Bloom Period
…growers. While the dry conditions provided a good opportunity for bees to work in the orchards, Machado noted that some growers began irrigating to just provide some moisture during the…
Almond Update: Three Factors Make Up Optimal Yield Equation
…Stong Spring Bloom Depends On Previous Year’s Practices Part Three: Bees, IPM, Nutrients Key To High Percentage Fruit Set Part Four: Water, Nutrients, Tree Health, Sunlight Interception Determine Final Kernal…
Almond Matters: Getting Started on Fertility Management
…from the standpoint of spraying insecticides. You have bees out in the orchards foraging and pollinating the crop so there are a very limited number of insecticides that can safely…
Deadline for Conservation Reserve Program General Signup is Feb. 28
…riparian forest and grass buffers, enough to go around the world 7 times; and Benefiting bees and other pollinators and increased populations of ducks, pheasants, turkey, bobwhite quail, prairie chickens,…
Cover Cropping in Almond Orchards Shows Promise
…it at the end of the season with the strength of their hives being way better when they were in orchards that had some forage for bees during the pollination…
Almond Matters: Being Prepared for a Flash Bloom
…year. Too many trees blooming simultaneously can overwork bees in getting to the flowers while the stigma is still viable, which can limit nut set. “If everything blooms quickly and…
Almond Update: Supporting and Promoting Bee Health Efforts
California’s almond industry is investing in bee health research through the Almond Board of California. The work is being done in all aspects of the honeybee life cycle, including when the bees…
New USDA Honeybee Research Facility to Focus on Pollinator Health
…and vegetable industry is facing because of the trouble that bees are having in sustaining their populations.” The research will be done in collaboration with the work already taking place…
California Almond Community Announces Five-Point Pollinator Protection Plan
…with the California almond community’s commitment to protecting and improving honey bee health, visit Almonds.com/Bees. 1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Why Bees Matter. 2 California Almond…
Almond Board Fueling Farm of the Future
…honey bees, essential to pollinating almonds. ABC has funded more research related to honey bee health than any other crop group,[3] with 125 projects funded to date. This year, California…
USDA to Open Signup for Conservation Reserve Program December 9
…riparian forest and grass buffers, enough to go around the world 7 times; and Benefited bees and other pollinators and increased populations of ducks, pheasants, turkey, bobwhite quail, prairie chickens,…