Bill Painter wrote:                                                             
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> Does anyone have info on the effects of bees on a soybean crop.  Are there    
> any reports on the possible increase in yields.  Are there certian soybean    
> plants that the bee's like and others that is does not.                       
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> Thanks!!!                                                                     
                                                                                
I have received some excellent honey crops from soybeans however                
the bees do not have much effect on the production of soybeans.                 
If there is any increase in bean production it is very small.                   
In one area that I have hives the farmers have been planting                    
some varities of short season beans and the bees do not seem to                 
get very much (if any) necter from them.  In another area the beans             
planted are a full season bean call Essex and the bees usually do               
pretty good with them.                                                          
                                                                                
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