Matthew Kroger
Topics: Beekeeping,
Woot woot! Chalk one up for the beeks!
“I Can’t Believe This Little Woman Beat Us:” Mayan Beekeeper Stops Monsanto’s Conquest of Mexico Dead in its Tracks
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Corn/Maize, Vegetables, Economics, World Hunger, Ag Africa, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,
Farmers turning out to be among pandemic heroes - FarmKenya Initiative
The country is currently food sufficient, according to the Ministry of Agriculture
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Dairy, Cheese, Food/Nutrition, Research, World Population, Ag Australia/NZ,
Dairy and low-fat diet can reduce bowel cancer risk says Otago uni study - NZ Herald
A reduced risk of bowel cancer was also found with a history of vigorous exercise.
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12/26/2020 SOURCE: www.nytimes.com
The number of vegetarians in Brazil doubled over a six-year period, which has given rise to a booming plant-based industry that is seeking to turn meatpacking plants obsolete.
Brazil Is Famous for Its Meat. But Vegetarianism Is Soaring.
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12/26/2020 SOURCE: theprint.in
In episode 648 of #Cut the Clutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about the PM's approach towards farmers and the opposition parties, while listing out the benefits of agriculture reforms.
Why Indian agriculture needs reforms but cannot be forced upon farmers
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12/26/2020 SOURCE: www.vogue.in
From shopping more responsibly to joining your local campaign group, here’s how you can play your part in tackling the climate crisis
35 things you can to do to help save the planet in 2021
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12/26/2020 SOURCE: www.cnbc.com
Demand for meat alternatives has grown and will continue to rise, but the industry still has hurdles to overcome in different parts of the world, analysts said.
The plant-based meat industry has grown into a $20 billion business — but challenges remain
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Agriculture Global, Food/Nutrition, Consumer/Retail,
"Over the years, production has migrated to diverse regions around the world. Today most vanilla comes from Madagascar, and to a lesser extent Indonesia, Mexico, Uganda, India and a handful of other countries."
The Not-So-Plain Story of Vanilla and Elo’s Efforts to Revitalize the Industry | North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Durham gene editing ag tech leader Elo Life Systems is using its proprietary computational biology pipeline to identify the genetic factors that can improve the vanilla orchid and introduce groundbreaking ways to produce more vanilla with less labor.
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Cover Crops, Conservation/Tillage, Water, USDA, Regenerative Agriculture,
Interesting perspective on improving farming's environmental performance
This might hurt some feelings
“To be radical is to simply grasp the root of the problem. And the root is us.” Howard Zinn, 1999. There’s a page on my website where I post the powerpoint slides from presentations I conduct. I to…
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Beekeeping,
DEBUNKING BEES FORAGE ON HEMP! There is nothing that the entire cannabis family has to offer apis mellifera. Not pollen, not nectar, not propolis material and likely not even microbes. Just because honey bees will visit a cannabis plant and land on the flower, that does not mean the plant has any pollen or nectar for the honey bee to forage on. 1. In their 2001 article, “Cannabinoid receptors are absent in insects” (Mcpartland, J, DiMarzo, V, De Petrocellis, L, Mercer, A, Glass, M), the authors revealed that insects do not produce arachidonic acid which is a precursor of necessary ligands. It is thought that the CB (cannabinoid) receptor was lost in insects over the course of evolution. The authors also noted that the CB receptor appears to be the only known neuroreceptor that is present in mammals and absent in insects. Because of its documented absence, we can reliably say that bees are unable to experience cannabis in the same way humans do. With that said why would bees visit any cannabis plants? What would possibly be on the plants that could entice them to visit it? The only thing remotely possible, but assuredly not at any high quantity would be microbes. Since honeybees eat a surprising amount of microbes (enough to classify them as a carnivore) that would be about the ONLY thing I could remotely fathom they be after. But because of the trichomes of the cannabis family, cannabis would not likely be producing compatible microbes with the honeybee’s gut or general biota. 2. Cannabis cultivars of hemp/cannabis are open air pollinated plants. Meaning the wind will disperse enough pollen to fertilize the flower to produce seeds and no pollinators are needed for fertilization of the flower. In OAP plants the typical pollination insect (if any at all) would be a hover fly of some specie or possibly a male mosquito. No cannabinoids produce enough pollen (of nutritive value) or nectar to lure apis mellifera. In most cases OAP plants have no pollinators at all. Why is this you ask? Because there is no significant amount of protein in the trace amounts of pollen there is to entice a pollinator. Additionally as temperatures rise protein levels of pollen fall. Meaning the warmer the temperature is outside the less protein thats available in the pollen. Next we look at open air pollinated nectar flows. Nectar quantities are typically dictated by amounts of pollen needed for pollination. This is obviously not always the case with all plants but a general rule of thumb one can follow. 3. Nutritional facts on cannabis pollen. Because cannabis is an OAP plant, the low pollen counts have less protein available simply because there is less of it. This is always the case with OAP plants. Grasses and nightshades are classic examples. How many bees do you see on tomato plants, or corn or maybe even potatoes? These are additional examples of open air pollinated plants. So the erroneous article claiming hemp is a late season forage for honeybees is a fallacy... Bees no like Cannabis: Why Bees Don’t make Cannabis Honey: https://www.cascadegirl.org/bees-don-t-make-cannabis-honey Constituents of cannabis pollen: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4253616?seq=1#page_scan_tab_hcontents Protein levels of cannabis pollen. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b840/541b8c6b9287ac36f5066aad467cb68f96ee.pdf Ecological impacts of protein levels of pollen: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/2015/659538/
Bees and Cannabis
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