Hello All,
I wrote:
> Floral sources can vary  every few miles in Missouri.  The worst location
is
> in the middle  of farmers fields for as far as you can see.

Maybe I should talk about the above. Field in farmers terms means plowed (or
no till) and planted. Pastures are  open land for livestock.

Pasture areas are the better choice for locations for many reasons. Our main
field crops in Missouri are corn and soybeans . The news channels say
Missouri's  largest cash crop is canabis sativa.  Corn produces only pollen
and soybeans bloom late and are not always dependable (what plant is?). In
many row crop areas of Missouri we are talking  thousands of acres of both.
Bee locations in those  areas  are missing the spring pollen from trees and
the only forage is the ditches .
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison