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Article: Recent storms pose pollination problems
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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I never really liked science.
While I passed through the rougher patches of physics and
chemistry sans tutor, the subject never clicked for me. Until now.
These past few weeks, I found a reason to care about Mother
Nature's finer points.
When hail storms barreled through the region, the science seemed
obvious. And then when a few more high-wind thunderstorms plowed
through the tri-state area, the reason for the destruction seemed
pretty clear.
But then farmers with ruined fields began discussing something I
was not entirely familiar with - pollination.
Now, before you start thinking about how big of a dummy I am,
hear me out.
Yes, I knew plants needed pollination to survive.
What I wasn't ...