Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever is excited to announce a new exhibitor area at the 2016 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic devoted exclusively to the connection between honey bees, monarch butterflies, pheasants, quail and quality habitat. Sponsored by Bayer, “The Bee Hive” promotes businesses and organizations who are striving to improve the quality and quantity of diverse grassland habitat for pollinators throughout the United States.
“For the first several weeks of their life, pheasant and quail chicks survive on a diet that’s almost exclusively protein-rich insects. Whether we call it brood habitat or pollinator habitat, it’s the same mix of grasses and flowers critical to honey bees, insects, pheasants and quail,” explained Rick Young, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever’s vice president of field operations, a certified wildlife biologist, beekeeper, and honey producer. “As we strive to make every acre the highest quality habitat possible, the benefits exponentially increase not only for pheasants and quail, but for pollinators, monarchs, and a wide array of wildlife species.”
“Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the fruits, nuts and vegetables we eat every day,” said Dr. Becky Langer, manager of the North American Bee Care Program. “With one-third of all crops relying to some extent on pollination from insects, it’s important that we do what we can to promote bee health. That’s why Feed a Bee and Bayer are excited to work with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever to create more forage to provide bees with the food they need to help feed our growing world.”
Bee Hive Exhibitor Area Highlights:
Bayer: Science For A Better Life
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2014, the Group employed around 119,000 people and had sales of EUR 42.2 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.5 billion, R&D expenses to EUR 3.6 billion. These figures include those for the high-tech polymers business, which was floated on the stock market as an independent company named Covestro on October 6, 2015. For more information, go to
www.bayer.com.
About National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2016
National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2016, presented by Federal Premium® Ammunition, will be the nation’s largest tradeshow and convention for upland hunters, landowners, sport dog trainers, and wildlife habitat conservationists. The event takes place at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City on February 19, 20, and 21
st. Additionally, the event will cater to quail-specific themes with a Quail Summit hosted on February 20, as well as more seminars, vendors, and hunting gear designed with quail hunters in mind.
Registration for full-weekend, conservation luncheon, and Saturday night banquet and concert now available.
About Pheasants Forever
Pheasants Forever, including its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have more than 145,000 members and 700 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empowered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent; the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grassroots structure. Since creation in 1982, Pheasants Forever has spent $634 million on 502,000 habitat projects benefiting 14.1 million acres nationwide.
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