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27 01, 2025

How do NZ honeys taste to consumers?

2025-01-31T11:28:24+13:00January 27th, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

21 01, 2025

Stepping up plans for more sustainable industry

2025-01-31T11:33:45+13:00January 21st, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

21 01, 2025

Managing varroa on the Australian front

2025-01-31T11:32:53+13:00January 21st, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

21 01, 2025

Working together for plant and pollinator safety

2025-01-31T11:32:12+13:00January 21st, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

21 01, 2025

Know your market: China

2025-01-31T11:27:22+13:00January 21st, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

21 01, 2025

US Election result creates export uncertainty

2025-01-31T11:26:18+13:00January 21st, 2025|NZBKJ blog|

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 [...]

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