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Like I said bees are needed in some crops that are basically poor pollinators. The main crops grown corn, maze, cotton, peanuts, soybeans, sunflower, and some others do that job nicely with out the need of bees. The only exception would be seed blocks or crossing blocks where you have two or more parent lines that you want the bees to do the work of crosspolintion.

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This is just the Ohio list............far away from me where we have a few more.

Table 1: Agricultural Crops in Ohio Requiring or Benefiting from Bee Pollination Leguminosae Alfalfa Clovers Sweetclovers Annual White Annual Yellow True Clovers Alsike Crimson Ladino Red White Field and Broad Bean Lespedeza (bush) Lima Bean Sainfoin Trefoil Vetch Liliaceae (Allium) Asparagus Chive Garlice Leek Onion Malvaceae Okra Cruciferae Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Chinese cabbage Collard Horseradish Kale Kohlrabi Mustard Radish Rape Rutabaga Turnip Cucurbitaceae Cantaloup (Muskmelon) Cucumber (Pickling and Fresh Market) Gourd Pumpkin Squash Watermelon Umbelliferae Carrot Celery Parsley Parsnip Miscellaneous Beets (Garden and Sugar) Buckwheat Flax Lettuce Linseed Rhubarb Safflower Sunflower Sweet potato Fruits, Nuts, and Berries Apple Apricot Blackberry Blackcurrent Blueberry Cherry Chestnut Dewberry Gooseberry Grape Huckleberry Peach Pear Plum Prune Raspberry Redcurrent Strawberry

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A article I read recently, listed bee polination as being necessary for more than one third of out food crops.

A dollar amount was put on it eight years ago as being more than 14 billion dollars, and I would imagine that this has vastly increased with food prices.