{"id":19736,"date":"2020-06-24T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19736"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:52:37","slug":"agroforestry-is-win-win-for-bees-and-crops-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/06\/agroforestry-is-win-win-for-bees-and-crops-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Agroforestry is &#8216;win win&#8217; for bees and crops, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since we have been celebrating National Pollinators Week, I&#8217;ve seen quite a few stories about the importance of pollinators like honeybees, especially to agriculture. Here is a story from Europe describing the method of combining strips of crops interspersed with trees and how it can double the number of pollinators. You can read more at <em>Morning Ag Clips<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/agroforestry-is-win-win-for-bees-and-crops-study-shows\/\">https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/agroforestry-is-win-win-for-bees-and-crops-study-shows\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Alley_cropping_corn_walnuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Alley_cropping_corn_walnuts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Alley_cropping_corn_walnuts-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Alley_cropping_corn_walnuts-305x138.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Alley cropping of corn and walnuts.  Source: USDA via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have been celebrating National Pollinators Week, I&#8217;ve seen quite a few stories about the importance of pollinators like honeybees, especially to agriculture. Here is a story from Europe describing the method of combining strips of crops interspersed with trees and how it can double the number of pollinators. You can read more at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19737,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions\/19737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}