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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com

Are We Backing the Wrong Bee?

Dr. Jim Cane is out in the squash fields before the sun peeks out over the eastern horizon. He knows that if he starts early, he can find male squash bees sleeping within the collapsed husks of yesterday’s squash flowers. Cane is a research entomologist. He’s spent much of his career as a bee specialist with the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and he’s an authority on the agricultural benefits of many of the 3,600 diverse species of wild, native bees, including squash bees. Male squash bees are ready at first light to greet females as they emerge

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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: www.manchesterjournal.com

Vermont Outside In: Cute Bees & GMALL Talk; 'All you can hear is the overwhelming buzz of bees'

Google the name Madeline Zeif and up pop dozens of images of a young, blond woman with a colony of bees buzzing around her. Usually she is smiling.

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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: www.nytimes.com

The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees

In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger.

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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: www.dw.com

Beekeeping - The Next Generation

Beekeeping is in. The number of young beekeepers is skyrocketing. It’s a seachange: For years, beekeeping was seen as a retirement hobby. One that was slowly dying out.

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TOPIC(S): FFA/4-H,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: www.oaoa.com

FFA students will meet on SRSU campus twice in September - Odessa American

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

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TOPIC(S): FFA/4-H,

09/10/2023 SOURCE: www.joplinglobe.com

Tractor Supply Launches Limited-Edition T-shirt to Support 96th National FFA Convention

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2023--

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Nancy Kavazanjian
shared this article 1 year ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Weather,

Why Investors Should Track El Niño | Morgan Stanley

Find out why the El Niño weather pattern could bring surging temperatures, higher food prices and stubborn inflation, and how investors may want to prepare.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
shared this article 1 year ago
Topics: Livestock/Meat, Food/Nutrition, Ag Innovation, Food Security/Shortage,

Council Post: The Animal Feed Industry’s Technology Transformation

More than most industries, animal agriculture has been slow to embrace diversity in its workforce.

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TOPIC(S): Rice,

09/08/2023 SOURCE: www.technologynetworks.com

Rice-Wrecking Fungus' Genetic Quirks May Be Its Downfall

Scientists hope that identifying an essential but formerly unknown stage in the fungal takeover of rice cells can accelerate the treatment or prevention of rice blast disease, which ruins up to 30% of global yields each year.

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TOPIC(S): Rice, Agriculture Global,

09/08/2023 SOURCE: www.hindustantimes.com

Rice plants in UP dwarfed by disease, output likely to be hit, fear scientists

inconsistency in weather catalyses viral and fungal attack on paddy crop; CSA University of Agriculture and Technology helping farmers on how to save the crop from further damage

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