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Issue: February 2021

Cover Story

Insect Inventory

Declining numbers are bad news for agriculture.

Ag Tech

Digging into Data

Refining knowledge to farm successfully in a margin era.

Agriculture

Russian Roots

Friendship and tree genetics bloom across a huge divide.

Flood image covering trees

Agriculture, Education

Anatomy of a Flood

Watershed approach seeks solutions at the source.

Man holding skull with antlers

Specialty/Niche

Shed Heads

The hunt is always on for this antler aficionado.

farm photos with landscaping

Agriculture

Demo Plots & Walking Paths

Minnesota’s Landscape Arboretum expands into ag education.

Demo Plots Story

crop in rows photo

Agriculture

Borrowing Or Stealing

A new look at how weeds eat profits.

durum wheat photo

Agriculture

Change Of Seasons

Winter wheat growers look within the family for alternative crops that fit.

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Agriculture

Hands-on Training

Internships help urban ag students gain practical farm experience.

EDUCATION

Bee Vectoring

Precision agriculture conjures up visions of satellites, computers, sensors, and other wonders of the electronic age. But a new fungicide application technology rolling out across the America’s main berry growing regions uses a slight variation of one of the world’s oldest agricultural practices, beekeeping. It’s possibly the most precise application technology yet.

“The process is called bee vectoring,” says Dr. Sue Willis Chan, manager of the University of Guelph’s 2020 Bee Vectoring Project. “Bees pick up small particles that contain biocontrol agents as they leave their hive and disseminate them to flowering crops. It works for strawberries, raspberries, apples, coffee, cucumbers, and potentially sunflowers and some canola too. Essentially, it can be used with any flowering crop that uses bees for pollination.”

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binyard photo with trucks and multiple bins

Agriculture

Building a Binyard

Rethink on-farm storage with an eye to the future.

destroyed corn in field from derecho

Agriculture

Down But Not Out

How Midwest growers are dealing with aftereffects from the derecho.

Perry pears photo

Specialty/Niche

Pear Pair

Couple presses for new opportunities in pear country.

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