Bee Research Lab Threatened By Closure

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, or BARC, is home to the nation’s efforts in agricultural research. Recent federal decisions that may close BARC are being challenged by members of Maryland’s Federal delegation, including Congresswoman April McClain-Delaney. One important part of BARC is research on bees and pollination. David Schultz with the Maryland State Beekeepers Association says closure would impact national food security…

“If we lost the pollinators, no only do we lose 35% of what we’d like to eat, but that really translates into starvation, because especially in this country, we feed a lot of other countries.”