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What are the financial and environmental benefits of bees to farmers?

One third of the UK’s bee population has disappeared in the past decade – a disaster for pollinator populations and, in the long-run, farmers and humans too. Natalie Noble finds out how honeybees are a benefit beyond the hum of the hive and the honey.

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What are the financial and environmental benefits of bees to farmers?

Bees are an important cog in the ecosystem wheel, but they are also a major component in our economic and social mechanisms too. You may ask what bees have to do with farming, but bees are a marker...

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