alexander klein has brought a doctoral student with her they're collecting pollen. these are her apple trees the 2 biologists plan to pollinate the elster trees by hand. but just gathering the pollen is no easy task they have to collect the pollen when the pods are perfectly right. now they go to the test area to pollinate every single blossom by hand. but. it takes the 2 of them 5 hours to pollinate just 5 trees. to pollinate every tree on the plantation by hand would cost about a $1000000.00 euros a year so what kind of harvest will this year old. will this be the future of our farming. needs to pollinating fruit trees by hand i hope not to hear their competition is just a few metres away in the beehive as if it's almost full hardly an empty spot. the beehive is situated right at the edge of the apple plantation marcus marshall has several of them and he's pleased with the results. as to be mounted you see that mason they do a lot and apple plantation is if you get out because of you to look at the big one the just one inside its belly is covered in pollen. mason

comes the moment of truth what happened to the trees that were completely cut off from insects alexander klein is surprised there are a few rather large apples here. kind of kana there are no seeds the bees weren't here and they didn't pollinate are no seeds also affects the apples nutritional profile so this would be a big change which one. without b.s. the quality of apples would suffer. klein says the lack of seed would be a serious problem the trees would not be able to reproduce so they're big with a different nutritional profile and wouldn't withstand storage and there aren't enough of them so we can't do without insects they're irreplaceable ok and they feel a major advocate for insects and birds and all of that not everything is died here yet it's like constance and we're doing our best we've planted hundreds of hectares of meadows with flowers and every agricultural field around here as a buffer strip of meadow land surrounding it almost i think we're headed in the right direction we farmers are doing a lot for insects but there aren't enough of us in each and every one of us needs to