I noticed a bee article can now be found on Bayer's home page:
http://www.bayer.com/

Clicking on the article takes you to this page: 
http://tinyurl.com/bnfuxck about a comprehensive action plan 
Bayer and Syngenta have proposed to help unlock the European 
Union stalemate on bee health.

One of the listed proposals is:

"1. Significantly scale up the creation of pollen rich, flowering 
field margins across the EU, to provide essential habitat and 
nutrition for bees."

Does anyone think a project like this of significantly increasing 
available forage along field margins is logistically feasible (on a
landscape scale) on American farmlands like those in the Corn Belt
of the Midwest or in California's agricultural valleys?  Or is this
idea unrealistic because tens of thousands of farmers would likely
demand financial compensation from the government for 
creating/maintaining flower strips for pollinators and because not
many farmers would have the time and interest interest in such an
endeavor that might only provide marginal landscape scale
overall improvements in bee health?

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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