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Fields of green a desert for bees

Farmers have few alternatives to the agri-chemical model that has driven high crop yields — and created a landscape toxic to bees.

By Josephine Marcotty

January 15, 2015 at 8:13PM
(Dave Braunger/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Josephine Marcotty

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Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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