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App promises better communication between farmers and beekeepers

Developed in Australia, BeeConnected will aid co-ordination between farmers and beekeepers and keep bees healthy

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 21, 2016

CropLife Canada and the Canadian Honey Council are teaming up to bring an app to Canada that promises to help bees and crop agriculture coexist. BeeConnected was developed by CropLife Australia and the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council, to allow farmers, beekeepers, and pesticide applicators to collaborate, anonymously, to facilitate best practices to protect pollinators.

Waldemar Damert stands next to honeybees during the Honey Show, held each year at The Forks Market in Winnipeg.

Livestock, News

Bee swarms cut into honey production

Fear not the swarm! Honeybee swarms don’t pose a risk to humans, but can hamper honey production

By Shannon VanRaes October 2, 2015

Some Manitoba beekeepers have seen honey production drop this summer as hot, humid weather increased the number of hives that split due to swarms. “It’s usually the humidity and the higher temperatures that make the bees and the hives feel hot, the same way that we do,” said Waldemar Damert, president of the Red River

Crops, Did you know?

Surprisingly few ‘busy bees’ make global crops grow

Conservation of wild pollinators can’t be based on economics alone

By University Of Vermont June 22, 2015

A major international study published in Nature Communications, suggests that only two per cent of wild bee species pollinate 80 per cent of bee-pollinated crops worldwide. The study is one of the largest on bee pollination to date. While agricultural development and pesticides have been shown to produce sharp declines in many wild bee populations,

Livestock, Weather

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 18, 2015

Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up to June 11, Health Canada’s

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: New Airflex table aimed at soybean producers

Manitoba Ag Days New Product: Honey Bee Manufacturing designs "farmer friendly" table to run at higher speeds in varying conditions

By Greg Berg February 19, 2015

Honey Bee’s new Airflex table has been designed with soybean growers in mind. With the push of a button, producers can switch between a rigid and flex table all from the comfort of the cab. In testing, the table was able to operate at speeds between 7-7.5 m.p.h. Honey Bee Manufacturing is located in Frontier,

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If you see beekeepers rubbing their heads…

Propolis, which bees use to seal hives, may have another use

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 18, 2014

Apparently it works on mice, so millions of men may be hoping it works on them too. Scientists writing in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry say the material that honeybees use to seal their hives may promote hair growth. In an ACS release, Ken Kobayashi and colleagues report that propolis,

Crops, News

Manitoba bee mortality down

Bee mortality in Manitoba varied greatly from region to region last winter, but most honey producers saw improvements

By Shannon VanRaes September 18, 2014

Despite the prolonged cold weather Manitoba endured last winter, bee mortality actually declined in the province. “We’re calling it a high normal,” said Rheal Lafreniere, Manitoba’s provincial apiarist. “When we take all the numbers that got reported to us, mortality came out to around 24 per cent.” Normal winterkill numbers fall between 15 and 25

Did you know?, News

Wondering about the state of the environment?

Just eavesdrop as bees communicate with each other  on where to find the best eats

By Cell Press June 5, 2014

Researchers have been monitoring honeybee “waggle dances” to track where they find the best nectar and pollen and measure the benefits of biodiverse landscapes. The results reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology May 22 suggest that costly measures to set aside agricultural lands and let the wildflowers grow can be very beneficial to

News & Opinion, Opinion

Thinking of bees

By Laura Rance-Unger May 26, 2014

Bees rank right up there with climate change these days for the volume of studies and stories that cross a farm newspaper editor’s desk. Sometimes the two are even linked, such as the prediction that Africanized honeybees, which can be fatally aggressive, will make their way north from the southern U.S. as median temperatures rise.

Livestock, Local news

Manitoba honeybees hit hard over winter

By Shannon VanRaes May 31, 2013

With the Canadian border closed to U.S. honeybee imports,  Manitoba honey producers are relying on overseas shipments to rebuild hives

Manitoba’s beekeepers are feeling the sting of high winter losses, coupled with the pain and expense of overseas bee imports. Early reports indicate average bee loss across the province is above the 30 per cent mark, with some apiarists losing as many as 80 per cent of their hives. “We don’t have a lot of

Daily Network News

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