Jordan Smith, 800-498-1518, Jordan.smith2@usda.gov The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its 2022 Cost of Pollination survey from November through December of 2022. The survey will be sent to nearly 16,000 producers nationwide. “Honey bees are important pollinators of crops ranging from almonds to zucchinis,” said King Whetstone, director of Read More…
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Heat Induced Pollination Problems in Blackberry
by Mark Bolda, University of California Cooperative Extension Originally published on: August 8, 2014 Interesting case documented in the pictures below of PrimeArk 45 blackberry in which the fruit did not pollinate very well. The issue is limited to one area of the field, where the grower suspects it wasn’t quite moist enough during the hot spell of Read More…