NEWCASTLE (CBS13) — Beautiful blossoms are emerging across Northern California, and those blooms mark the start of an agricultural event like no other — something beekeepers call the big dance. Hidden ...

Feb. 15—New reports of a honeybee shortage have thrown new uncertainty into the annual almond pollination just as trees have started blooming across the Central Valley. In a sharp turnaround from glut ...

Even after a bruising year of lower earnings, crop losses and soaring production costs, California almond growers may not be willing to cut corners pollinating their trees this season. That’s good ...

Each year, millions upon millions of honey bees go on a cross country road trip to make the California almond harvest possible. That semi truck next to you on the highway may be carrying something ...

Bees play a vital role in the pollination of more than 1.5 million acres of almond trees in California. A staggering loss of bee deaths nationwide could trigger a spike in hive thefts, authorities say ...

California is the world’s greatest producer of almonds, although the crop is not native to the region. Almond farmers rely on pollination from bees, but past practices have endangered the very insects ...

One of the biggest events in the bee industry is going to start in California — almond pollination. Remember from earlier writings it took 3,600 semi-trucks to transport the bees for the almond ...

Pollinating California’s vast almond crop has been devastating for bee populations. Kind wants to use its buying power to implement new farming practices to change that. The snack company Kind is one ...

Rented bees by the billions have been at work in Central Valley almond orchards, tasked with pollinating the 2020 crop. It has happened amid renewed scrutiny over whether this process – crucial to ...

Häagen‐Dazs will be the first major food brand to carry the Xerces Society's Bee Better Certified Seal on its ice cream products containing almonds, communicating to consumers that its almonds were ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Diamond Growers, the world's leading almond marketer and processor, is participating in the 2023 Rose Parade® presented by Honda, an iconic annual event held ...

California’s almond business has skyrocketed in the past 20 years — it’s now an $11 billion industry — and the space taken up by almond groves in the state’s Central Valley is approximately the size ...