Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you savor Palisade peaches, Rocky Ford melons and fresh vegetables from your home garden or enjoy beautiful flowers in your ...

As corn growers are evaluating pollination, more reports of problems resulting from the “overly tight tassel wrap” phenomenon are trickling in from farmers and agronomists, with pictures and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s normal for fruit trees to drop some fruit early in the summer to stay healthy and balanced. Pollination problems, pests, and ...

Probably no crop has been scouted better through pollination than in 2025 says Austin Schleich, a technical agronomist with Channel. Across his geography in western Iowa, Schleich says the phenomenon ...

Gardens offer a steady and reliable source of nectar all year round, helping to keep pollinators fed when farmland sources are limited, researchers have discovered. Gardens offer a steady and reliable ...

Quad-City area residents have an opportunity to learn more about the pollinator issue from all viewpoints during a conference June 10-11 in Rock Island. Pollinator populations are declining — and in ...

A patch of bok choy has bolted in this Olathe garden. Cheri Ziegler Johnson County K-State Research and Extension Often, when one considers what is growing in their fall vegetable garden, their first ...

QUESTION: All of my crossbred Roma-cherry tomatoes last year were hollow and rotten inside. I admit that I overwatered them. I have always planted them in the same location without this issue in the ...

I am a lover of wildflowers. Seeing, smelling, identifying and just being amid native wildflowers are on my list of my favorite outdoor pursuits in Nebraska. Those wildflowers are more important than ...

Beautiful, diverse, ephemeral and mysterious. Those were just some of the words Micah Kloppenburg used to describe pollinators. Kloppenburg has been particularly engaged this week; he's a pollinator ...