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CATCH THE BUZZ – Wonderful Orchards Slashes Almond Production

By Mike Hornick, The Packer Citing the state’s drought and unfavorable business conditions, Wonderful Orchards — previously known as Paramount Farms — is removing 10,000…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Better-Fed Honey Bees Fight off Harmful Effects of Parasite

Gail Wells OSU bee researcher Ramesh Sagili inspects a European honey bee in a carrot seed field near Madras, Ore. Photo by Lynn Ketchum…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Hive Size Matters, It Seems

University of Idaho professor Brian Dennis is helping scientists understand a baffling but vitally important puzzle: What is causing the decline of honey bees?…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – El Nino Didn’t Fix California’s Drought

California’s drought still remains, and the worst of it is still unchanged from last week. This follows a continuing trend of dry conditions returning…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Informed Partnership – BIP – Leads to Healthy Hives

By Christine Souza, California Farm Bureau Federation Bee Informed Partnership crop protection agents Robert Snyder and Ben Sallmann, above, collect samples of bees from…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Farm Mom of the Year

Nominations Open February 23; Continue Through March 29, 2016 LOUIS (Feb. 23, 2016) – They are warm and caring, yet tough as nails….

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Hygiene Critical In Food Processing, Including Honey Packing. The Value of Integrated Pest Management for Food Manufacturers

Tim Larson RS, ACE, Quality Assurance Manager, Rentokil — North America The production and packaging of food products demands the highest standards of quality…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Flooding Almond Orchards May Help Water Shortage

Californian researchers are thinking outside the box for methods to deal with drought: flooding. According to Toby O’Green, University of California, Davis soil resource…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Top 10 Largest Sugar Producing Countries in the World

Top 10 Largest Countries in the World Sugar Producing (As On FY-2014-2015) Karthikeyan Dhanushkodi Director at Navadhane Agro Foods Pvt. Ltd. Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – California’s Almond Board’s Honey Bee Best Management Practices

California almond bloom, typically from mid-February to mid-March, will be a welcome sight for some of the industry’s most valuable partners. Honey bees will…

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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ron Carleton, EPA on Agriculture

By Laurie Greene, Editor, California AGTODAY Editor’s note: In an exclusive interview with Ron Carleton, EPA Counselor to the Administrator for Agricultural Policy, we asked how the…

March 2016

Honey Labels

by Ann Harman Bees produce a wonderful product – honey. It is up to you, the beekeeper, to make their product attractive for sales…

March 2016

How To Start A NonProfit Bee Club – Part 2

The Pollinator Stewardship Council Being A Nonprofit Means Being A Business by Michele Colopy Have you read Part I yet? If you haven’t, click…

March 2016

Beeyard Thoughts

by James E. Tew The modern chaotic honey bee Internet The answer is out there. Can you find it? Well here it is –…

March 2016

What’s Hot

Thermal Top Bar Hive Beekeeping by Wyatt Mangum Top-bar hive beekeeping is a popular and pleasant way to keep bees. There are no heavy…

March 2016

Instrumental Insemination

Common Questions by Sue Cobey Introduction Selective breeding and stock improvement are recognized as the long term solution to challenges facing the beekeeping industry….