Sentences with phrase «california almond orchards»

Many Montana honeybee hives spend winter months in intensive agriculture regions (e.g., California almond orchards) before returning to a variety of forage -, prairie -, and grain - dominated landscapes in Montana.

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Bremner is a family - owned operation, growing certified organic, raw and sproutable almonds in their California orchards since the 1950s.

Our certified organic almonds are grown in our family's own orchard here in California and raised without man - made fertilizers or sprays.

Vast monocultures — such as the almond orchards of central California and the soybean fields of Argentina — bloom for only three or four weeks each season, offering no food for bees the rest of the time.

An independent experiment in boosting almond yields has mixed the wild blue orchard bee species with rented honeybees in California fields, says Theresa Pitts - Singer of the Department of Agriculture's Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah.

This includes tomato farms and almond orchards in California, berry farms in Oregon, and fruit orchards in Washington.

With California's water levels beginning to hit record lows this spring, Singapore - based Olam International, Australia's largest almond producer, signed a deal to develop 1,480 acres of orchards in New South Wales.

At two hives per acre, it now costs roughly $ 500 million to pollinate California's 1.25 million acres of almond orchards.

And that's just what scientists and farmers are testing out with almond orchards in California.