Fields of green a desert for bees

Farmers have few alternatives to the agri-chemical model that has driven high crop yields — and created a landscape toxic to bees.

January 15, 2015 at 8:13PM
(Dave Braunger/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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about the writer

Josephine Marcotty

Reporter

Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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