Bayer CropScience's Second Annual Bee Care Tour Buzzed into Indiana
Bayer Hit the Road to Promote Bee Health by Continuing its Tour Across the Country at Top Agriculture Universities
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer CropScience continued its second annual Bee Care Tour, a mobile tour designed to emphasize the important role bees play, by making its sixth stop at Purdue University in West Lafayette. The Tour aims to facilitate education and collaboration among growers, beekeepers, researchers, master gardeners and government officials to promote best stewardship practices in bee health.
Highlights from the stop included:
- A panel discussion featuring Dr. Greg Hunt, an esteemed entomology professor at Purdue University and author of The Purdue Bee Hive. Dr. Hunt was joined by Karen Scanlon, executive director of the Conservation Technology Information Center; Steve McNair, director of development at Salem4youth; and Dave Shenefield, owner of Clover Blossom Honey, Indiana's largest beekeeping, pollination and honey production operation.
- A featured presentation from Mark O'Rourke, Bayer CropScience SeedGrowth technical service representative, on how honey bees and crop protection can coexist to create a sustainable agriculture.
- A Bee Care Tour exhibit that featured a listening station on the impact Varroa mites have on honey bees, video on Bayer's Bee Care Program and interactive quizzes and games on keeping bees healthy. The exhibit also included a honey tasting bar with several different flavors of honey; including samples provided by Clover Blossom Honey located in La Fontaine, Ind.
- A pollinator-inspired breakfast and lunch, including a fresh cucumber, onion and tomato medley in sweet vinaigrette and honey glazed chicken tenders with honey mustard sauce.
Purdue University is the Bee Care Tour's final stop before heading to Washington, D.C. for National Pollinator Week June 16-23. We've already stopped at Washington State University; the University of California, Davis; Oregon State University; Commodity Classic convention and tradeshow; and South Dakota State University.
For more than 25 years, Bayer has been committed to honey bee health, and continues to provide information on the vital role honey bees play in sustainable agriculture.
You can follow and share with us on Twitter @BayerBeeCare and Facebook at facebook.com/BayerBeeCareCenter. You can learn more about all of our stops at beecaretour.bayer.com.
Bayer CropScience Twitter Page:
http://twitter.com/bayer4cropsus
Bayer CropScience Blog:
http://connect.bayercropscience.us
Bayer CropScience is committed to bringing new technology and solutions for agriculture and non-agricultural uses. For questions concerning the availability and use of products, contact a local Bayer CropScience representative, or visit Bayer CropScience online at www.bayercropscience.us.
Visit the Bayer Connect - Social Hub for all Bayer CropScience social media, recent news, blog posts, videos and more.
About Bayer CropScience
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible for the agricultural business, has annual sales of EUR 8,819 million (2013) and is one of the world's leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications, Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce of 22,400 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.
USA-BCS-2014-0017
Find more information at www.bayercropscience.us.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release may contain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bayer Group or subgroup management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in Bayer's public reports which are available on the Bayer website at www.bayer.com. The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments.
Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140325/NY90226
SOURCE Bayer CropScience
Share this article