"The real issue in the corn belt of the USA is the change in practice to
almost nothing but corn (due to the alcohol fuels program), continuous corn
(no crop rotation), little or no till combined with planting cover crops
that bloom in spring, or letting weeds bloom.  Dust from planters is
directly deposited on or settles on blossoms, and bees get a dose. " 

Nonsense.  Pure nonsense.  The number of acres in corn as changed VERY
little in the last few years.  And will change even less this year.  Ethonol
is now being looked at by other crops,  Corn after corn is bad,  and the
bean market is higher again.
Corn is back DOWN in the 4.25 range,  so acreages will again drop.  
Making such a greviously inaccurate statement makes me question the rest of
the post


No till is a huge boon.  The chickweed and yellow rocket here are huge
crops.  But is burned down before planting.  There are no blooms in those
fields after planting here.  
Here being the middle if IL  with corn and beans as far as the eye can see.

Charles



             

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