News release, March 3, 2017 Export revenue for New Zealand pure honey reached a record $315 million for the year ended 30 June 2016, up 35 per cent on the previous year, according to a report released by the Ministry for Primary Industries. This increase reflects value per kg rather than increased volume. “New Zealand’s [...]
Apiculture New Zealand’s Technical Focus Group made a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority Hearing on chlorothalonil used in home garden fungicides. The submission presented at the hearing on February 24, 2017 supported the EPA’s proposal to withdraw home garden products containing chlorothalonil from the market but adding it did not go far enough. Click here [...]
New Zealand’s two commercial bumble bee producers have experienced major supply problems with pollen this past 12 months, right when demand for bumble bees has taken off. This request is for new suppliers of pollen from the beekeeping industry in an attempt to significantly grow pollen supplies in NZ. Growing the total amount of pollen [...]
Gisborne lab worker Tammy Waters has developed an interest in honeybees and hive health and will be completing a research project shortly for which she needs the help of beekeepers. As part of a Master by thesis at the Victoria University of Wellington and she wants to find out about the distribution of Lotmaria and [...]