Pollination Services | Volunteer Gardener
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2020
- It is estimated that bees are responsible for one third of the world's food production. We introduce you to a man who takes his bees on the road for most of the year working for growers to get the pollination necessary for a variety of crops across the U.S.
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What a difficult job! I'm a beekeeper with 10 hives and 7 nucs. I appreciate the scale of business these pollinator services offer to help grow our food. Keep on truckin'! You are helping Americans keep fresh veggies, fruits, and nuts on their tables and in their pantries.
Thank you for sharing through these uncertain times. I have a new youtube gardening channel.
I wish they would explain more about how this affects local bees. I can't imagine this is a good practice. I'm all for supporting our pollinators and I have planted more than my fair share to support them. But this is like bringing workers from overseas to put Americans out of work. Sorry, that's how I see it!
Some of these comments are not practical because honeybees are considered livestock by the IRS and Dept of Agriculture. The bees have a job to do and moving them as the crops need pollination is effective for big business, the backyard beekeeper model is not related.. My apiary is twenty double deep and sixteen NUCs for queen production. I'm looking for local farmland to place these hives for the pumpkin crops and other summer pollination as the honey is not real important to me. I even had a neighbor ask me to help him get his hive built up because he has had struggles with the drought.
I have read a fair amount about how awful this practice is for the bees. Industrialisation and exploitation is not making for happy bees. I understand Almond trees are one of the worst. I refuse to drink almond milk after reading about the plight of the bees. Dave Goulson and others have a fair amount to say about this industry none of it pleasant.