It is hard to believe that July is almost over. Corn has been tasseling and the ear leaf is starting to poke its head out. With that in mind, Peter Thomison, OSU Extension corn specialist, provides ...

A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as ...

Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, [email protected] LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Local honeybees were brought to Indian Ladder Farms on Wednesday for the annual pollination process of the apple orchards. The hives were brought in from Rulison Honey Farms ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

FREE MOBILE APP. NOW AT 6.33, WE ARE WRAPPING UP POLLEN WEEK WITH WHY IT IS A NECESSITY TO OUR LIVES AND THE ECONOMY. FARMERS RELY ON THE POLLINATION PROCESS TO CREATE AND SUSTAIN OUR FOOD SYSTEM.

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...

LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass Lowell scientist has simulated the buzz of a bee in a microrobot. UMass Lowell’s Noah Jafferis, assistant professor of ...