What Bell Nursery Learned From GrowingWithout Neonicotinoids This Spring

摘要

Determined to find out firsthand what a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides would mean for growers, Bell Nursery CEO Gary Mangum challenged his team to grow without them. Here he shares the lessons learned.IN winter 2013, we decided to produce Bell Nursery's spring 2014 crops with-out neonicotinoid pesticides. While the science does not exist proving that neonicotinoids (neonics) as a class do any significant harm to bee populations, we wanted to learn forourselves about the impact of growing neonic-free. The verdict: we lost product that we would not have lost had we been using our normal chemical rotations.