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• The High Cost of Honey Bee Colony Losses: Rebuilding Inventories and Managing Health
  Despite persistent honey bee colony health issues and widespread attention on colony losses in the U.S., colony inventories have remained relatively stable. Using USDA data, this article shows U.S. beekeepers…
• Conservation & Risk, Part 1: Introduction and Hypothesis
  It is possible that the conceptualization of agricultural conservation, as reflected in federal policy, is insufficient, incomplete, or too narrow, and that helps explain issues such as funding challenges, backlogs in approved applications, farmer frustration, low adoption, discontinuation of critical practices, and more. A topic of this scale and scope needs a place to start. […]
• Margin Coverage Option (MCO) 2026 Input Harvest Prices
  The Margin Coverage Option (MCO) is an endorsement product introduced last fall and offered to producers for their 2026 crop year (see farmdoc daily September 16, 2025). MCO covers operating…