Sticky Situation & Weather for the 4th

Sticky Situation & Weather for the 4th

Sticky Situation & Weather for the 4th plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Agricultural Research Scientists in Gainesville, Florida are testing a bait-and-kill approach using sticky boards and natural chemical attractants to trap varroa mites - top pests of honey bees that hinder the bee’s ability to pollinate flowering crops. Thirty-five to 50-percent of mites dropped off the bees when exposed to the attractants during preliminary testing. The team hopes its patenting of the attractants will encourage an industrial partner to develop the technology further.

Well depending on where you are this weekend the weather could be cool, hot or stormy. Does that cover the bases? Here’s meteorologist Brad Rippey.

RIPPEY: Looks like we will have a frontal system, a frontal boundary draped from the northern plains stretching all the way into the southeast that will separate very hot air to the south and west from cool conditions in the north and east. So were actually looking at below normal temperatures expected in the Midwest, the northern plains, the upper Midwest and into the northeast.

Here in the northwest, expect..hot.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

Sexual harassment in the work place is often thought of as happening in an office type setting around the water cooler; not in a farm or agriculture setting. Sadly, sexual harassment does not limit itself to any one line of work in particular and while incidents of sexual abuse in agriculture are considered isolated, female farm workers and their employers should be aware the possibilities of harassment exists and adopt sexual harassment prevention measures. Victims of sexual harassment often fear losing their employment if they come forward. Since the majority of female farm workers are more often than not undocumented immigrants the fear of retaliation for reporting such abuse is two fold. Farmers need to provide all their workers with harassment policies written in the language they understand. Any reports of abuse should be treated with the utmost of privacy and acted upon swiftly and diligently. Farmers need to be aware of the working relationship between their managers or foremen and their workers; the cost of being unaware could be devastating indeed for them and their female employees.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.

 

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