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Greg K

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Newsweek has an article on line about how
the bee hives were tested near corn and
soybean fields for pesticides. They found
that there were as many as 40 different
pesticides in the hives, most of which were
not used in farming. There were traces of
neonictoids but also traces from bug
repellants. Starting to sound like maybe
it's not all the farmers fault. Reminds me
of when they talked about fertilizers
polluting the waterways only to find out
that there were a lot more issues with the
runoff from people's lawns.
 

A farmer, like any other business man, needs to see a return on his investment. Over-applying fertilizer, pesticides, and insecticides is wasteful and quickly reduces that return on investment.

The folks who live in town don't care how much it costs them, they just want a beautiful lawn with no insects in it.
 
I will bet any amount of money that on a per acre basic, lawns in town get two to three times the amount of fertilizer and herbicides as a normal agricultural field.

Gene
 
The problem with news reporters is they only make a story sound good so they can sell it to the pappers they work for. The honey bee causes no harm in less if you make a threat to them. We know that (right). What they make we like (honey). My Grandpa had alot of bee hives on his farm it really help out the crop in oranges, black berries,and many more other crops we grew. We protected our bee hives and my grandpa had a friend who would come out and get the honey out of them to. They really paid for them self.That is what my Grandpa use to tell all of use in the family but years go by and town grew which means now it is a big no to have them.
 
One of the boys said he heard what sounded like rain against the side of the garage one day but it was sunny out. He looked out to see what was going on and he said there was a swarm of bees going by. Almost like a cloud of them moving through from somewhere..
 
Now that you mention it......
I went to the Home Depot to get some fertilizer for my garden. I was hoping to get something along the natural products. All I saw was this for lawns, that for lawns, and everything under the sun ---- FOR LAWNS!!!!
Finally found a tiny section of "organic" fertilizers for outlandish prices.
I left.

So, I went to the local independently owned hardware store. Found a huge display of lawn products. Searched all over the lawn/garden section of the store. Finally found what I needed tucked away in a nearly invisible corner of a shelf - a bag of general purpose 10-10-10 fertilizer.

So, it seems that almost everything is aimed at lawns. Doesn't seem logical to me. Put stuff in the ground to kill off the "weeds" and make the grass grow faster so that you can mow it more??? Then complain about mowing so often??? Or, as the yuppies do, hire somebody to mow for you.

What a strange world we are living in.
 
Doesn't seem logical because you can't see the other side of the coin. City people don't put in vegetable gardens, and there are 10000 times as many city people as country people, so who do you think the big box stores are going to concentrate their marketing on?

If you want generic fertilizer, you go to a feed store, farm supply or garden center. If you have a town big enough for a Home Depot, you have a garden center in town with all the bags of triple-10 your heart desires too.
 
Twenty or thirty years ago, when the so called "environmentalists" were screaming about us farmers "killing" the Chesapeake Bay, somebody here in Va. did a study on nitrogen fertilizer usage, per acre, on a countywide basis. It was discovered that there was more nitrogen used per acre in Fairfax Co. than any other county in the state. For those who don't know, Fairfax is a "bedroom community" suburb of Washington, D.C. I don't believe their was a "working farm" in the county at that time, and certainly not one there now. All was applied to "lawns." Of course that includes N applied to parks, ball fields, and golf courses and Urea applied as "ice melt" to sidewalks. We all now how many crops are grown in those areas, don't we
 
seems like so many are missing the point as far as the welfare of bees , not surprised by those findings , Bees are V ERY IMPORTANT for our food chain to continue ,, clothindynum, used by seed companies to control rootworms,, is a slow killer of my neighbors hives here , the hives are dead before the next summer ,.the bee owners think they were blighted or sickened ,, if they really knew what killed the bees , they would be pizt
 
(quoted from post at 05:37:17 06/01/16)
A farmer, like any other business man, needs to see a return on his investment. Over-applying fertilizer, pesticides, and insecticides is wasteful and quickly reduces that return on investment.

The folks who live in town don't care how much it costs them, they just want a beautiful lawn with no insects in it.
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There was a big algae bloom in a lake here in NH. It was finally traced to a big condo development where they were anxious to help top dollar sales by having super green lawns.
 
I realize that not everyone, raises the Roundup ready crops. Since most of it is, why does anybody have need for any insecticide as it is on the seed. Since the IH cyclo planters are mostly gone How is all this insecticide being blown around? Our White is air but not nearly like our old Ih air planter for air volume. I don't see a cloud of dust behind when planting. Also the seed is much less traveled by the air with it just above the row unit in the box. The insecticide was only in the box metered out as the drill type wheel spilled it out.
We have bees only about 30 feet from our Corn or soybean field depending on the rotation and the year. they are doing fine according to my brother who tends them.
 
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