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>> As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bee Biology and Systematics
>> Lab, Cane is now advising almond growers on how to have "a more balanced
>> portfolio of pollinators"

randy oliver wrote:

> Not likely, with the total absence of other flowering plants in 
> and around the almond orchard.

Randy, the long term objective of the native pollinator groups (and
some university professors who have collaborated with them) 
may be to secure government funding via the new Farm Bill to 
plant and manage "conservation strips" on farms.

Evidence: Dr. Rufus Isaacs, Department of Entomology, Michigan
State University recently posted the following on a pollinator 
discussion list:

"the UK and many other European countries have a government 
funding program to pay farmers to establish pollinator conservation
strips on their farms. The US is lagging way behind in the research
and in the practical information of how to get this done on farms, 
but the new Farm Bill may help change that in the next five years."

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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