Agriculture committee  I actually have two locations where they're doing this. I offered beehives to it. They haven't planted, but—

Agriculture committee  They haven't planted right on the test plots yet, and they haven't set them up properly. But I was talking to Tom Congdon, who's another beekeeper south of us. He had the yard set up, but they hadn't put the stuff on—the pollen traps and the bee catchers—and yesterday a neighbo

Agriculture committee  That's from another farmer who planted the corn. It probably wasn't a polymer, because he—

Agriculture committee  —got it on the field beforehand. They didn't even have it set up for the guy who was going to plant the polymers. So, it's pretty much an infant right now. It's a big learning curve. I'd hate it to be us that has to foot the bill. This is very expensive. I couldn't get a statem

Agriculture committee  Monoculture is a problem. We used to have pasture, and most of the pasture is gone. Corn seems to be the number one crop. We've expanded our areas and we're moving our bees out of the corn areas. They put it on soybeans, and it doesn't seem to be as high a concentration on soyb

Agriculture committee  No. When you're talking about that topic, if you kill the host you kill the predators too. When these farmers are killing the insect, they're killing off the natural hosts to all these insects. The monarch butterfly is gone. The bumblebee is gone. We just don't see them anymore.

Agriculture committee  Are you talking about blocking the bees in for half a day?

Agriculture committee  Yes. I remember when they were first spraying Furadan, we used burlap, soaked it in water, and put it around the front. But what happened was that the hives overheated, so it killed the hives anyway. The problem with this product is that it isn't a one-day shot. Once it's there

Agriculture committee  But there was nothing to impact, because the bees were inside the hive. They weren't working. It doesn't matter how long the winter is as long as there's a food store for the bees to stay in there. The only thing you have to worry about is running out of food—and that you have

Agriculture committee  In the past weeks, farmers are getting ready to plant corn. They say to reduce your risk, you should maybe move your bees. So I go around, and I'm moving all these bees here and there. I stockpile them in another yard so they don't get.... The next day they plant corn right besid

Agriculture committee  Mr. Krupke, from Purdue.

Agriculture committee  I don't know when that would be.

Agriculture committee  It means best management practices.

Agriculture committee  So all in all, to really get a quick answer on this and without doing a whole lot of scientific stuff, if you just tested our water, our soil, our potatoes, and our high-fructose corn syrup it would tell you what's going on out there. Thank you very much.

Agriculture committee  I don't think it's enough. First of all, up until last year, a lot of farmers didn't even realize it was a pesticide that was on it. I drove by a field this year, and a guy's planting corn. It's not an air seeder, it's a typical planter, and he has his two kids standing on the g