by Doug Mayo | Mar 27, 2015
USDA released their annual Honey Production Report last Friday, March 20, 2015. 2014 was a good year for US beekeepers with both record high prices and also an increase in total production. The following is a summary of what their survey data showed and some...
by Doug Mayo | Mar 13, 2015
The University of Florida IFAS Extension offers a database of fact sheets available for free download on the Internet called EDIS (Electronic Data Information Source) that has many publications of interest to farmers and ranchers in Northwest Florida. Each fact sheet...
by Roy Carter | Dec 19, 2014
Cross pollination is carried on mainly by insects, especially by honeybees, bumblebees, and to a very limited extent, other bee-like insects. The honeybee, of all insects, is most peculiarly adapted to the task of cross pollination. Most insects are dormant during...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 24, 2014
Just as soil testing can provide vital information on how to fertilize crops, forage testing can provide vital information on how to supplement hay fed to livestock. Feed and fertilizer are simply too valuable these days to simply guess, or just use the same amount...
by Roy Carter | Aug 1, 2014
Over everything the beekeeper does hangs the honey producer’s main objective: maximizing bee populations in time for major nectar flows. The next major nectar flows in north Florida will be spring; but beekeepers need to start working now in order to be ready for them...
by Judy Biss | May 16, 2014
The Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), conducted their eighth annual national survey of honey bee colony losses. Their preliminary summary report from the...
