The second place prize went to YT AG, a system for monitoring the health of bee hives used by
the commercial pollination industry that ambitiously includes hardware, software and a premium AI component.
Stronger regulation both of global transport of honey bees and bee products and of migratory beekeeping practices within countries for
commercial pollination.
Not exact matches
Eventually, hand
pollination was perfected on a
commercial scale.
For
pollination, the power of roughly 1.7 million colonies is harnessed along with 80 - 90 % of the country's available
commercial bees!
The study also found that N. bombi infections in large - scale
commercial bumble bee
pollination operations coincided with infections and declines in wild bumble bees.
«Vanishing of the Bees follows
commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill
pollination contracts across the U.S..
The researchers believe that the scale of wild bee decline will push farmers to rely even more heavily on
commercial honey bee operators who travel across the US, hiring out colonies for
pollination.