Where once there were vast areas of forest and other natural habitats, farmland now covers much of Earth—including 70% of the ...

Jake Klocke, of PowerPollen, prepares a pollen applicator in August 2024 near Ames, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall / AP Photo Tim Bucher was raised on a farm in Northern California and has worked in ...

That’s why Jason Cope, co-founder of farm tech company PowerPollen, thinks it’s essential to mechanize arduous tasks like detasseling. His team created a tool a tractor can use to collect the pollen ...

Unfortunately for farmers, bee populations are under pressure ... they cause them to release their pollen. The level of vibration is said to have been designed to imitate that of bumble bees ...

co-founder of farm tech company PowerPollen, thinks it's essential to mechanize arduous tasks like detasseling. His team created a tool a tractor can use to collect the pollen from male plants ...