UN Development Program
Beekeeping as a hobby and business of the future Young people from Kolasin believe in success The Perisic family from Kolasin, a small town…
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BUYING AND SELLING BEES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
By : Bill Ruzicka PACKAGES, NUCS, SPLITS, AND SWARMS were created for traditional northern beekeeping when the bees were gassed and killed after the…
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By Jessica Dally Micro Targeting This HUGE Audience. I promised you in the last article that we’d get down to the nitty-gritty of how…
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Reginal Honey Price Report
December Report We’re throwing a lot of numbers at you this month but we think you’ll find them useful. Below is our monthly report…
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Regional Honey Price Report
November Report Honey Production 2018 We asked our reporters to sum up the honey crop this year, including Spring, Summer and any Fall crop…
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Do Pesticides Kill Honey Bees?
By Malcolm Sanford A recent spate of articles/comments in Bee Culture has focused on the effects of pesticides on honey bees. These tend to emphasize…
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Regional Honey Price Report
October Report What’s Your Market Doing? With the off shore assault on the industrial U.S. honey market filling pipelines with low cost product, coupled…
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APICULTURE PILOT INSURANCE PROGRAM
By: Brittney Goodrich What Is It And How Can I Enroll? The Apiculture Pilot Insurance Program (API) is insurance offered through the United States Department…
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Regional Honey Market Report
September Report We have the USDA NASS Colonies report this month on colony losses, stressors and such (see Where The Girls Are) and we…
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Busy Days At The Farmers’ Market
By: Ann Harman You have been participating in your local farmers’ market for several months now. You have your table with your jars of…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Red Tape Everywhere If you’ve ever thought about starting your own agricultural business, from selling bee products to farmer’s markets, I…
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Regional Honey Price Report: August
So, what’s it take to sell your honey? Of course is it good comes in first, and when selling retail (1:1), giving a taste…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Making A Family Business My oldest son Henry is a senior this year. A good portion of this particular paragraph (and…
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Regional Honey Price Report
July Report Honey Labels We surveyed our reporters this month asking about the labels they use on their honey jars. We asked yes or…
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Regional Honey Price Report – May Report
Winter & Spring Conditions We checked in with our reporters this month to determine how good, or how bad their Spring weather had been,…
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Regional Honey Price Report: May Report
Honey Market Prediction Imports are still a challenge when it comes to honey prices (and honey quality), so we checked in with our reporters…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Pesticides and Beekeepers – A Difficult Relationship In previous months, I’ve given a presentation on pesticides and beekeepers several times. It’s…
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He Fought The Law . . . And The Law Won
By: Noel Sweeney Law is our language of natural justice which we use to speak for the strong and the weak. Part of its…
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U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2017
By Kim Flottum United States honey production in 2017 from producers with five or more colonies totaled 148 million pounds, down nine percent from…
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Regional Honey Price Report
April Report Winter So Far In late Feb we surveyed our reporters to see how winter was going so far, what they had done…
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