>Allen I probably am nit picking, but I think with the agricultural
environment we have now, even if we did not have herbicide resistant
Monsanto crops, we would still have the vast monocultures.  They would just
be sprayed with products other than roundup.

I agree with Dave.  RR technology allowed the adoption of glyphosate as the
herbicide of choice, but neither glyphosate nor RR crops have anything to
do with the vastness of the monocultures.  However, they clearly have
something to do with the amount of weedy bee forage.

Even in the most enlightened no-till crop management, (see a fascinating
video at
http://cookingupastory.com/the-next-step-adding-cover-crop-to-a-no-till-system-2)
which
has reached the stage of not requiring herbicides, there will still be
virtually no bee forage.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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