Category: Pollination
California’s Murray Family Farms endures challenges
Murray Family Farms, owned by Steve and Vickie Murray, has discovered that growing cherries, berries and other tree fruit in the southern San Joaquin Valley’s desert region is highly challenging.
Organic Grower: Beehive health concerns continue
In the latest yearly honeybee colony survey, U.S. beekeepers reported a high level of loss of their managed honeybee colonies in the past year.
Chief commercial officer named at vertical farming operator Oishii
Oishii vertical farming strawberries indoor farming greenhouse
UF study: aphids make tropical milkweed less inviting to monarch butterflies aphids
pollinators monarch butterflies tropical milkweed University of Florida UF/IFAS
Registration opens for Michigan Perennial Farm Ecosystem conference
Michigan Perennial Farm Ecosystem Conference Leelanau Conservation District perennial crops native beneficial habitat pollinators soil invertebrates soil health vegetation management sap analysis
Biological crop protection and pollination pioneer dies
Peter Koppert Koppert Biological Systems biological crop protection pollination pests diseases sustainability crop protection greenhouse
Near-extinct native pollinator may be saved by genome map
Scientists possess a new tool to help save the Rusty patched bumble bee. Read more about efforts to save the native pollinator from extinction.
Syngenta: Celebrating the essential role of pollinators
Throughout the summer, many of us love to snack on fresh blueberries and cherries or munch on almonds and juicy tomatoes. These refreshing foods are reliant on and benefitted by insect pollination.
Rice Fruit celebrates 110 years
Rice Fruit apples grower and packer 110 years tree fruit
Mitigate blueberry heat damage with overhead irrigation
Michigan’s blueberry industry has been increasingly affected by climate change with spring heatwaves, long dry periods and heavy rains all causing a potential for yield losses.
Vertical farming operator Oishii brings robotics to indoor farming
Oishii vertical farming robotics strawberries indoor farming greenhouse
Pollinator Partnership adds third-party verified option to Bee Friendly Farming certification
Pollinator Partnership third-party verification Bee Friendly Farming Certification
Biobest plans to acquire biopesticides manufacturer
Biobest, a global leader in biological control and pollination, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire BioWorks Inc., a Victor, New York, biopesticides manufacturer.
Biobest recommends introducing raspberry predatory mite
Biobest predatory mites pests raspberries
Bumblebee pollination brings higher yields
Biobest Bumblebee pollination strawberries
Weather expert forecasts conditions for 2023 apple crop
The U.S. Apple Association is presenting a webinar featuring weather expert Drew Lerner and his outlook on this year’s weather and how it could affect the apple crop.
New biopesticides position started by Biobest
Biobest Group biological control and pollination products
Indoor queen banking could help beekeepers deal with climate change
Washington State University Indoor queen banking study