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Honey Industry
More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee
colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according
to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national
group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what
is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return
to their hives.
As with any great mystery, a number of theories have been
posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction
than science. People have blamed genetically modified crops,
cellular phone towers and high-voltage transmission lines
for the disappearances. Or was it a secret plot by Russia
or Osama bin Laden to bring down American agriculture? Or,
as some blogs have asserted, the rapture of the bees, in which
God recalled them to heaven? Researchers have heard it all.
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Futures prices are near last week's levels with the exception
of spring wheat futures, which are higher. The big new is
that the winter wheat harvest found momentum as the weather
cleared.
