WASHINGTON, June 17, 2022 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proclamation in recognition and help of National Pollinator Week (June 20 – 26, 2022). Pollinator species, corresponding to bees, different bugs, birds, and bats play a vital function in producing greater than 100 crops grown within the United States. Honey bee pollination alone provides greater than $18 billion in worth to agricultural crops yearly.
USDA acknowledges the vital function pollinators play in agriculture and helps pollinator well being via analysis, information assortment, diagnostic companies, monitoring, pollinator habitat enhancement applications and pollinator well being investments. USDA additionally launched right now its “Annual Strategic Pollinator Priorities Report (PDF, 1.8 MB)” that outlines USDA pollinator analysis and programmatic priorities for the approaching 12 months. Research priorities focus each on managed and wild pollinators. Identifying pollinator analysis priorities and practices allows USDA, our companions, and communities we serve to make knowledgeable selections when supporting pollinator well being within the agricultural methods, ecosystems and economies that rely upon pollinators.
USDA can even be internet hosting a pollinator reveals exposition together with the USDA Farmers Market on Friday, June 24, 2022 (no rain date scheduled), from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (EDT) on twelfth Street and Jefferson Drive SW (subsequent to the Smithsonian Metro Station). This occasion, in celebration of National Pollinator Week, will characteristic dozens of distributors and reveals for the general public to discover and study pollinators and pollinator well being.
Read the complete proclamation: National Pollinator Week Proclamation (PDF, 244 KB)
Learn extra about USDA pollinator work at www.usda.gov/pollinators.
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