{"id":100649,"date":"2025-07-26T21:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/?page_id=100649"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:53:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our\u00a0multidisciplinary team\u00a0was funded in Fall 2020 by USDA to\u00a0improve US blueberry pollination practices. The team includes horticulturalists, entomologists, apiculturalists, plant breeders,\u00a0economists, and social scientists, and we are advised by a stakeholder advisory board\u00a0that connects us to\u00a0agriculture,\u00a0government agencies,\u00a0academia, and industry. The project has\u00a0five main objectives:\u00a0Conduct cost-benefit analyses of different\u00a0honey bee\u00a0stocking density and placement strategies to develop recommendations for modern blueberry systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Determine pollination requirements and pollinator attraction across new and existing cultivars.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Determine how variable weather conditions affect blueberry pollination.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Develop predictive models of pollination, fruit set, and yield for creation of a Pollination Planner to improve pollination management decisions.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Deliver information on improved blueberry pollination to the industry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n
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    If you have questions about our research and extension work in blueberry pollination, please contact the project manager\u00a0Rufus Isaacs at isaacsr@msu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This work is supported by Specialty Crops Research Initiative Award #2020-02627 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you have questions about our research and extension work in blueberry pollination, please contact the project manager\u00a0Rufus Isaacs at isaacsr@msu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100649"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101261,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100649\/revisions\/101261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwpnetwork.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/blueberrypollination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}