Outdoors, ag provisions include paint, bees, farmers
May 21, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press
Paint will cost more and be recycled. Bees will be protected. Financially troubled farmers will be able to access state aid.
And an island to provide more wildlife habitat could be built in the Mississippi River. Continue Reading
Emily Campbell sees bees as fascinating and beneficial. Campbell the Minnesota Honey Queen and a seven-time grand champion at the Minnesota State Fair for projects involving bees will compete in Hershey, Pa., in January to become American Honey Queen.
Growing up the daughter of two migratory beekeepers, Katie Klett of Jamestown has been around the flying insect species for most of her life.
DULUTH, Minn. For years, beekeepers quietly maintained hives throughout the city of Duluth, attracting little attention. But that changed this spring when a neighbor complained about a beekeeping operation in Gary-New Duluth.
Beekeepers and several environmental groups argue in an emergency petition filed with the EPA that the agency failed to require some legally mandated field testing before the pesticide was approved in 2003. New research, including two studies published last week in the journal Science, raises serious questions about its effect on pollinators of all kinds, they maintain.
Winters are usually what one agriculture specialist calls a “reset button” that gives farmer a fresh start come planting season. But with relatively mild temperatures and little snow, insects are surviving, growing and, in some areas, already munching on budding plants.
Hello, welcome back to the mid-winter edition of the Beehive. I thought I would let you folks know what is going on in the beehive as of late January.
Welcome back to the Beehive. Who would have ever thought we would have a 40-degree day in the middle of December? 
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