Leadership Award From Bayer
Bayer CropScience Leadership Award in Beekeeping Bayer CropScience today announced it is seeking nominations for its second annual Bee Care Community Leadership Award, which…
Read MoreBeekeeping 60+ Years ago, on film
Beekeeping More Than 60 Years Ago, Caught On Film Following is a story about a 10 minute file made in 1947, the year this…
Read MoreHuge Bee Kill In Almonds
What Happens In Almonds Doesn’t Stay In Almonds. This Year’s Devastating Bee Kill In California Hurts Apples, Cranberries, Blueberries…and Beekeepers. News Release From The…
Read MoreBirds, Not Bees. Listen In On Nature
Not Bees, But New Bird Stamps. Look, and Listen To These Beautiful Bits Of Nature You don’t need a smartphone to tweet once the…
Read MoreWhat’s to be planted where in 2014
Prospective Plantings for 2014. What’s in store this year. Released March 31, 2014, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United…
Read MoreA Blinding flash of common sense
Natural history must reclaim its place Support for the subject has declined, but its study can avoid costly mistakes for society Support in developed…
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My Boss Hits 60!
My Boss hit’s a Milestone!!! Even though my boss, Kathy Summers (Assistant Editor, Design & Layout at Bee Culture Magazine), will be out of…
Read More2013 Honey Report
Colony Count, Total US Honey Production and Individual Colony Production and Honey Prices all up in 2013 Released March 21, 2014, by the National…
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No Bees, No Food, A TED Talk
Watch John Miller, Commercial beekeeper from North Dakota and Northern California, discuss his role in the pollination industry. His talk at TEDxUNC last month…
Read MoreCosts outweigh neonic benefits study
Study Reveals that Costs Outweigh Benefits of Toxic Insecticides Implicated in Bee Kills Center for Food Safety today released a scientific literature review which…
Read MoreBees Damaged After Almond Bloom
Bees Damaged after Almond Bloom: Meeting March 24 Due to the bee damage experienced after almond bloom this year, Bee Industry leaders will be…
Read MoreCover Crops A Good Thing. Go Figure.
Research reveals true value of cover crops to farmers, environment Planting cover crops in rotation between cash crops — widely agreed to be ecologically…
Read MoreEPA ‘Move or Die’
Beekeepers Must Move Bees Last fall the EPA published a new pesticide label originally for the foliar application of four neonicotinoid pesticides. By December,…
Read MoreWorld Water Day
From Food Tank: More Crop Per Drop This Saturday, March 22nd, the world celebrates World Water Day. Water and agriculture are inextricably interlinked and…
Read MoreSo that’s where honey comes from
Nectar: A sweet reward from plants to attract pollinators Flowering plants need sugar transporter SWEET9 for nectar production Evolution is based on diversity, and…
Read MoreVirtual Hive Model Shows Value For Food, Pest Control
New Model For Virtual Hive Lets Everybody Look At Bee Problems Alan Harman British scientists have created a virtual hive that gives them just…
Read MoreFood Production in NE changing
Land Use In US North East Changing, So Is Food Production Alan Harman Climate change could force a change in food production in the…
Read MoreMoney for Bee Food!
Money For Food…It’s About Time! Alan Harman The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing close to $3 million in technical and financial assistance for…
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Rule 7 Part 1
I’m jumping ahead this time but we’ll get back to Rule 3 soon. But this time I’m looking at something more timely…. The Seventh…
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Nigerian Beekeeper
I met Daniel Oduntan, CEO of the Institute of Vocational Bee Craft at the Western Pennsylvania Beekeepers Seminar on February 15, 2014 He had…
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