Those hedgerows were built up over hundreds of years.
Even the tanks often needed special brush cutters welded to the front to cut through.
Posted on 12/02/2016 9:11:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Minnesota-based General Mills will be part of a partnership that will plant more than 100,000 acres of pollinator habitat over the next five years, the company announced Thursday.
General Mills, the Xerces Society and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are teaming up on the $4 million project to support farmers across the United States by offering technical assistance to plant and protect habitat like native wildflower field edges and flowering hedgerows.
The habitats will serve bumble bees, squash bees, honey bees and butterflies as well as the crops they pollinate.
The funding will also support six biologists who will offer consulting to farmers on habitat restoration and pollinator-friendly farm management practices. The biologists will be based in Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nebraska, North Dakota and Maine.
Any hee that gets too close turns into a squash bee. Sorry, I had to.
Would they be doing this if they couldn’t write it off their taxes and if it didn’t benefit their advertisement bottom line?
They support LGBT so have been on my ban list for years.
“technical assistance to plant and protect habitat like native wildflower field edges and flowering hedgerows&
These plants by their definition produce no plausible food for man. A hedgerow is planted to surround an area, not to grow for any need for man other than enclosing an area. When you consider the hunger problem in the US, along with the world, and understand that they are using plantable land to aid in the protection and flourishing of bumble bees, squash bees ans butterflies, where are their priorities? Far as I can see, it is a marketing technique to gain approval, not production.
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Good!
I’ve read about hedgerows in France during D-Day, you needed a tank to break through them.
Actually I’m for this. I live and grew up in in farm country. Everything is now farmed road to road with zero habitat now days. Roundup ready crops with almost zero weeds. I’m not anti GMO in the least but we seem to be losing our bees and butterflies. This are the polinators of many other crops to include my fruit trees.
The plants indirectly bring about the crops we eat. By raising plants that encourage the abundance of bees, you provide food crops with the necessary pollination that bees provide. Because of their pollination function, they play an integral part in one-third of everything we eat.
Those hedgerows were built up over hundreds of years.
Even the tanks often needed special brush cutters welded to the front to cut through.
Yep, I read about those tanks long ago, too. What a nightmare for our boys...
The habitats will serve bumble bees, squash bees, honey bees and butterflies as well as the crops they pollinate.
Is that two bees, or not two bees, that is the question.......(me too)
When you consider the agricultural overproduction "problem" in the U.S. and elsewhere ...
We can afford plenty of acreage to support pollinators (bats are my personal favorite) and other wildlife habitat.
Ever tried pollinating by hand? It's slow and inefficient. On the other hand, maybe that would solve our unemployment problem ...
You can track the death of our honey bees directly with the rise of GMO plants. This has been going on for many years and scientists are blaming the bee’s demise on everything but GMOs.
GMO plants do not hurt the honeybees. The argument is that modern herbicides are too effective at killing the weeds that provide habitat for a number of benign or beneficial insects. The greenies want farmers to grow more weeds. The question is, who should pay for this and how.
Hunger in the US is caused by stupidity, not lack of food. We throw away enough to feed ourselves all over again. Poor people in the US are fat because they have lots of food and nothing to do.
Pollinators are faced with endless fields stripped of everything except an agricultural crop like corn that does them no good.
The corn is being grown in response to the fuel-ethanol mandate.
Yep, won’t be long until there is a new federal mandate to deal with the consequences of the last federal mandate. Ad nauseum.
Nobody ever wants to de-mandate us.
“Is that two bees, or not two bees, that is the question.......(me too)”
My mind has wandered and your comment reminded me of this, heaven knows why:
TB, or not TB, that is congestion. Consumption be done about it? Of cough, of cough.
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