Pollination Problem

摘要

Almond growers will face a big challenge in getting enough healthy honeybees to take care of next month's bloom. IF YOU'RE an almond grower, it might be time to rethink the way you do business, at least in terms of pollination. Gone is the day — andit was only a couple of years back — when bees cost less than 50 dollar per hive. It used to be that your friendly beekeeper would show up, set out the beehives, you'd shake hands on a price, and that was it. He'd return after bloom to collect the restof his fee. You'd pay him whatever the balance was, probably depending on how many healthy bees he'd actually delivered, and away he'd go.