Central Beekeepers Alliance

Canadian Honey Giant Sold to US Company

McCormick & Company Inc announced this week that it has purchased the shares of Billy Bee Honey Products Ltd. for $75 million in cash. Founded in 1958, Billy Bee Honey Products is Canada’s largest honey business with a 60% share of branded honey sales to retailers in Canada. In recent years, Billy Bee has developed [...]

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Scientists Develop New Protein Diet for Honey Bees

American bee researchers are looking closely at better nutrition as a possible defence against Colony Collapse Disorder, and have developed a new “science-based” bee food to that purpose. MegaBee was developed by Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman and her colleagues at the ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, and went on the [...]

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Beekeeping for Beginners: Lee Valley

Lee Valley’s Gardening Newsletter (Vol. 3, Issue 1, February 2008) has quite a nice write-up on getting started in beekeeping, written by Stephanie Harper of Sweet’s Corners Bee Co. of Lyndhurst, Ontario. We particularly like the sound advice for beginning beekeepers to contact local beekeepers’ clubs: “These organizations hold meetings often attended by people who are [...]

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CBA Meeting 11 March 2008

Tuesday, 11 March 2008 Central Beekeepers Alliance Meeting Agricultural Research Centre, Fredericton, NB 7:30 p.m. Want to learn more about Beekeeping? Central Beekeepers meet on the second Tuesday of the month. Visitors and new beekeepers are always welcome! Most meetings include an educational session, group discussion, or hands-on demonstration for the benefit of beginning beekeepers in central New [...]

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New Date for NB Agriculture Consultations

As announced in “Province to Consult with NB Agriculture Stakeholders,” Agriculture and Aquaculture Minister Ronald Ouellette is travelling the province to consult with farmers and other agriculture industry stakeholders, in preparation for the New Brunswick Agriculture Summit in April 2008. We’ve just received word of a change in schedule for some of those pre-Summit public [...]

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