It’s Summers Time – January, Travel and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
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By : Kim Flottum I’ve been attending one or the other, and sometimes but rarely both, of the National meetings in January almost every…
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It’s Summers Time – More Travel. Upcoming Events. Losing Friends.
By : Kathy Summers It’s funny – last month I wrote about a difficult trip home from the airport and just last night we…
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By : Kim Flottum Webinars aren’t new. But if you haven’t, take a look at the webinars we do here and let me tell you…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Three New Podcasts out on www.BeekeepingTodayPodcast.com
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren is a former USDA-ARS soil scientist, having received his PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004. Today he…
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2019 marks the 150th year the A.I. Root Company has been doing business in the beekeeping community. This is, without doubt, certainly something to…
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It’s SUMMERS TIME!
Time Flies. The years sure seem to go faster, the older I get. And every year we never get it all done. But we…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 3200 Year Old Egyptian Cheese, with Signs of Poisonous Bacteria, Would Pair Perfectly with Mad Honey!
By: Cassie Martin SAY CHEESE this lump of 3,200-year-old cheese found in an ancient Egyptian tomb shows signs of having been contaminated with bacteria…
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The Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum Acutally, It’s All About Honey A while ago I was talking about where food comes from and Mexico is certainly one…
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TV Proposal
By: Stephen Bishop For those who have Netflix, I recommend for consumption: Detectorists. This show has nothing to do with beekeeping other than the fact…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Is Trendy Superfood Manuka Honey Actually Worth Its Price Tag?
Justina Huddleston We’ve been seeing Manuka honey pop up all over Instagram and recipe sites lately, but we wanted to figure out what exactly…
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Selling Honey. Land Use. Local. By: Kim Flottum I have several interests in life that aren’t directly involved with bees, beekeeping and beekeepers, but most of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – NAFTA Negotiations Worrying Local US Farmers.
Farmers are growing more and more anxious with the negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement. Several Wisconsin farmers’ organizations have joined a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Beekeepers Seek Funds To Refute New Zealand Claim To Manuka Name.
Leah McBey WHAT’S IN A NAME: Burnie’s Skoop Wholefoods owner Kirsten Goninon and co-worker Darralin Housegoh hold a jar of high-value local manuka honey….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Lawsuit Filed Regarding Dicamba Damage. And A Bee Culture Editorial.
Gil Gullickson This is the story Seven Arkansas farms are suing makers of dicamba herbicides used in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Explaining Massachusetts’ Attempt to Protect Bees, but Farmers and Farm Bureau Cannot Support Knee-Jerk Reactions Not Backed By Scientific Data
Ed Davidian, President, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation has a long history of backing and lobbying for bills that…
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Spieth Road Stories – The Future Is Now
The 21st century arrived at Spieth Road, again, in mid-April this year with the arrival of 7, 3 pound packages of honey bees in…
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Spieth Road Stories – UnWintering
Kim Flottum We unearthed the bees a couple of weekends ago. Well, unwrapped them actually. I learned winter in northern Wisconsin and it stuck….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Fraudulent Honey – Again
Alan Harman Photo UMF Honey About a third of honey marketed in the United Kingdom as manuka product from New Zealand does not…
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