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"Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: deckeda
Date: July 09, 2019 01:16PM
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Last year, the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era rule barring the use of neonicotinoids, a chemical family that is one of the major culprits in colony collapse disorder, in wildlife refuges. And the Environmental Protection Agency has granted "emergency" permissions to 18 states to spray an insecticide that's considered "highly toxic" to bees.
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Two other surveys have been suspended or scaled back in the last year. The Cost of Pollination survey, which tracked how farmers pay for honeybees to pollinate their crops, was suspended in 2018, and the Honey survey -- which gathers information on honey production -- has been scaled back to cut data collection on beekeeping operations that have less than five colonies.
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"The decision to suspend data collection was not made lightly, but was necessary given available fiscal and program resources," according to a notice posted by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Survey. The USDA would not provide a figure for how much the agency was saving by discontinuing the survey.
The suspension is "temporary," according to a USDA spokesperson, who did not say when or if it would be resumed.
Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 09, 2019 03:35PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: Acer
Date: July 09, 2019 04:07PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: mstudio
Date: July 09, 2019 05:25PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: Ted King
Date: July 09, 2019 06:04PM
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mstudio
You know, it's not really funny. That @#$%& is doing so much damage that no one is aware of because they are all worried and get their panties in a bind over his stupid @#$%& up hourly tweets. Maybe he's not as ignorant as I thought.
Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: Ted King
Date: July 09, 2019 06:14PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: July 09, 2019 06:54PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: deckeda
Date: July 09, 2019 09:34PM
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Lux Interior
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Ted King
I think this isn't the unfolding of some master plan.
His "master" plan is; "If Obama did it, I'll undo it."
Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: deckeda
Date: July 09, 2019 09:55PM
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mstudio
You know, it's not really funny. That @#$%& is doing so much damage that no one is aware of because they are all worried and get their panties in a bind over his stupid @#$%& up hourly tweets. Maybe he's not as ignorant as I thought.
Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: sekker
Date: July 09, 2019 09:56PM
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Re: "Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat."
Posted by: vision63
Date: July 11, 2019 10:46AM
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