Energy and Environment

USDA spending $3M to feed honeybees in Midwest

By M.L. JOHNSON
Published February 25, 2014 9:54pm ET
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USDA spending $3M to feed honeybees in Midwest
In this May 22, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a queen Italian honeybee, the large bee just left of center, is surrounded on an apiary nest in Washington, D.C. The USDA hopes to help honeybees by providing $3 million to farmers and ranchers in five states to improve their pastures. It turns out that dairy cows and bees like many of the same plants. (AP Photo/USDA, Lance Cheung) | Lance Cheung

MILWAUKEE — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will spend millions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve pastures in five Midwestern states to provide food for the nation’s struggling honeybees.

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