MARKET Karen Allan, Apiculture New Zealand Communications Coordinator Apiculture advocates who accompanied Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on his recent trip to India see the world’s most populous country as a potential new market for New Zealand honeys if some of the current barriers to access, such as high tariffs, could be overcome. [...]
EDITORIAL Karin Kos, Apiculture New Zealand Chief Executive Welcome to the Autumn edition of The New Zealand BeeKeeper journal. As the 2024/25 season comes to an end, beekeepers will be looking forward to getting hives wintered down and to having a well-earned break. The season by all accounts has been mixed [...]
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH Roger Harker1, Sara R. Jaeger2, Christina Roigard1, Sok L. Chheang1, David Jin1, Virginia Corrigan1, John van Klink1, Aaron McCallion3, Wally Tangohau4 Consumer perceptions and attitudes to New Zealand’s honeys have been captured in a recent study led by the Te Pūmautanga o Te Arawa Charitable Trust. More than 3000 [...]
EDITORIAL Karin Kos, CE of Apiculture New Zealand and Tony Wright, CE of the Unique Mānuka Honey Factor Association (UMFHA). Welcome to the summer edition of The New Zealand BeeKeeper journal. After a cold and wet spring, the recent bout of warm weather has seen some good honey flows in many parts [...]
BIOSECURITY After holding off the varroa mite for much longer than most beekeeping nations, Australian defences were finally breached by the invasive pest in June 2022. Apiculture New Zealand Communications Coordinator Karen Allan caught up with Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) Chief Executive Officer Danny Le Feuvre to get an update on [...]
BEE HEALTH While trying to protect crops from pests, New Zealand Avocado has been working with ApiNZ to ensure safe use of pesticides that won’t harm their top pollinators—honey bees. Karen Allan caught up with NZ Avocado Industry Systems Associate Sunmeet Bhatia to see how the spraying programme is progressing. Mirids (different [...]
MARKET Karen Allan. In the first in a series of articles about New Zealand’s major honey export markets, we take a look at China, including recent research from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) and New Zealand Story, and thoughts from an exporter on the ground. In 2008, New Zealand became [...]
MARKET UPDATE Phil Edmonds, Apiculture New Zealand Eyes are on the USA trade policy settings as honey exporters look to anticipate demand in the year ahead. New Zealand honey exports for 2024 will likely match 2023 shipments, but the year ahead is less certain. The honey trade data for the third [...]
HEALTH AND SAFETY Apiculture New Zealand and Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ). The wildfire risk around the country is currently quite variable. There have been unseasonably warm temperatures, and some areas have had significant rain while others have remained very dry. This is likely to be a common theme for the [...]
HEALTH AND SAFETY. By Karen Allan. Full-time commercial beekeeper Paula Stapleton moved from Ireland to New Zealand with her husband and three children 14 years ago. Two years ago she finally realised her lifelong dream to become a firefighter when she joined as a volunteer in Ahipara, Kaitaia. Paula says she had [...]