New Zealand’s growing honey trade with the United States is in jeopardy if Australian honey products are allowed into the Kiwi market.
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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania | Posted on 24-01-2010
A burning beehive prompted a callout by the Alexandra Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon Beekeeper Russell Poole, of Alexandra, said he was burning a hive infected with the disease foulbrood.
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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania | Posted on 20-01-2010
Unnaturally high cane sugar levels were behind the New Zealand Food Safety Authority holding a $1 million honey order being exported from Timaru last month.
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It took Chris McElroy four visits and some creative persuasion before British supermarket giant Waitrose agreed to stock his New Zealand Honey Company products.
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A species of bee in Australia has found a gruesome way to deal with a parasitic interloper that can damage its hives.
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There is a very good reason why the honey produced by Australia’s bees is considered to be among the world’s cleanest and most delicious.
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MR Jing Bang Zou, proprietor of Jim’s Honey in Young, has signed an agreement in the boardroom of Lambing Flat Enterprises with representatives of Korean company, Kim Jeong Moon Aloe Co. Ltd. on Friday morning.
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New Zealand honey bees are under new threat from the varroa destructor mite following reports of resistance to treatment in the Auckland area.
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A Dunedin-based honey maker has been named as New Zealand’s fastest growing business with revenue growing by nearly 1000% over the past two years.
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Ruakura Plant and Food Research scientist Dr Mark Goodwin developed a metarhizium fungus-based product which is effective against the bee-killing varroa mite.
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