Geee Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Town Hall: MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend millions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve pastures in five Midwestern states to provide food for the nation's struggling honeybees under a program to be announced Tuesday. Commercial honeybees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of produce each year. Many beekeepers bring hives to the Upper Midwest in the summer for bees to gather nectar and pollen for food, then truck them in the spring to California and other states to pollinate everything from almonds to apples to avocadoes. But agricultural production has been threatened by a more than decade-long decline in commercial honeybees and their wild cousins due to habitat loss and pesticide use. Colony collapse disorder, in which honey bees suddenly disappear or die, has made the problem worse, boosting losses over the winter to as much as 30 percent per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Given how much money is wasted by out (much beloved) government, this 1. is a rounding error 2. may actually do some good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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