Mar 06
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Feb 10
Lately I’ve encountered a number of companies advertising only their 800 toll free number (800, 855, 888, etc.). Numbers like 800-BUY-BEES, 800-GOT-HONY. While these numbers may be easy to remember or even catchy they could be frustrating your potential customers. I know they are frustrating me, particularly when the vanity number is the only …
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May 21
The Ohio Queen Projects was started by the Ohio State Beekeepers Association in 2007 with two goals in mind. First, to teach beekeepers to raise queens and second, to develop a stock improvement program (ie. a breeding program). To quote directly from the Ohio Queen Project's Mission Statement from their website:
The Ohio State …
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Apr 11
West Virginia has become the first state in the nation to pass a law giving beekeepers immunity from liability for ordinary negligence. This law came about as a result of strong support by the leadership of both the House and Senate. We are fortunate to have a State Senate President, Earl Ray Tomblin, whose father …
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May 20
The 2008 Farm Bill (June 18, 2008) created a new Emergency Assistance program for Livestock, Honey Bees and Farm-Rased Fish (ELAP). According the the limited documentation on www.fsa.usda.gov you would need to buy in by September 16, 2008. Most of us would not be requried to pay any "buy-in" fees as we would fall in …
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Apr 01
It shouldn’t be a complete surprise. Ohio’s inspection program has been dwindleing for some time now as state inspectors retire and aren’t replaced. However, I got that gut feeling that something terribly wrong when my 2009 apiary registration came in an envelope marked ‘Emerald Ash Borer Program’. I know the program was litterally down …
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Feb 28
I have periodically given talks and even classes last year on raising your own queens. Inevitably someone will come up and ask questions and seek advice beginning with ‘I don’t want to compete with you, but I’d like to know how you do x’. My response is always the same, ‘Please compete with me. …
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Feb 19
I’m sure most people receiving email from companies, sooner or later receive one with a legal disclaimer or warning on the end of dire legal consequences if you use or even look at the email in the wrong way. They go something like the following (names have been changed):
Attention: This e-mail message, including any …
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Feb 10
When the USDA gets involved of course. The USDA has mandated that raw almonds grown in the US be pasteurized. So by the common persons definition raw almonds aren’t. At least they aren’t if they are grown in the US, the rule doesn’t apply to imported almonds.
Not to be outdone, Ohio is now …
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Jan 30
Haagen-Dazs announced this month at the National Beekeeping Conference announce a ‘vigorous and ambitious’ program supporting honey bees, honey bee research, and a plan to generate awareness of the plight of the honey bee. This includes a donation of $250,000 to fund sustainable pollination and CCD research. Any guesses who received this money? It …
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