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Scholarship For Commercial Beekeeping student

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Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association (MBA) will donate one $500 scholarship to a high school student in Manitoba in 2015. Applicants are required to be from a family who is a registered member of MBA, and completed Grade 12, who intend on furthering their education in the beekeeping business after high school. Attending the one year Commercial Beekeeping Certificate course at Grand Prairie Regional College (GPRC), Fairview Campus, Fairview, Alberta, is the only course to which this scholarship applies. Scholarship to GPRC Story click here. (to be added later) Application Form – MBA Scholarship click here. (to be added later) For info/application […]

Scholarship For Commercial Beekeeping student

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Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association (MBA) will donate one $500 scholarship to a high school student in Manitoba in 2015. Applicants are required to be from a family who is a registered member of MBA, and completed Grade 12, who intend on furthering their education in the beekeeping business after high school. Attending the one year Commercial Beekeeping Certificate course at Grand Prairie Regional College (GPRC), Fairview Campus, Fairview, Alberta, is the only course to which this scholarship applies. Scholarship to GPRC Story click here. (to be added later) Application Form – MBA Scholarship click here. (to be added later) For info/application […]

Scholarship For Commercial Beekeeping student

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Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association (MBA) will donate one $500 scholarship to a high school student in Manitoba in 2015. Applicants are required to be from a family who is a registered member of MBA, and completed Grade 12, who intend on furthering their education in the beekeeping business after high school. Attending the one year Commercial Beekeeping Certificate course at Grand Prairie Regional College (GPRC), Fairview Campus, Fairview, Alberta, is the only course to which this scholarship applies. Scholarship to GPRC Story click here. (to be added later) Application Form – MBA Scholarship click here. (to be added later) For info/application […]

Voluntary Pesticide Incident Reporting to PMRA

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The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has a website resource for reporting pesticide incidents. The website can be found as follows: (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/protect-proteger/incident/index-eng.php) It includes the following items: -What is a pesticide incident? -Why report a pesticide incident? -What happens to the information provided? -What is the difference between voluntary and mandatory reporting? -How to report a pesticide incident -Other resources For example, a pesticide incident may include any unintended or unexpected effect of a pesticide on honey bees.

2011 Resolutions Approved 16 Nov

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Resolutions Approved at the MBA AGM 16 November 2011   See each resolution for its’ status or associated board action.   1. TEMPORARY WORKERS       WHEREAS Western Canada has a growing and fundamental need for temporary foreign workers to maintain a healthy honey industry, and  WHEREAS the Canadian honey industry will not function to its full potential without temporary foreign workers that can be accessed in a timely and forthright manner and,   WHEREAS recent changes to the Foreign Worker application process are not fully understood by Federal Government staff nor producers, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That MBA encourage CHC to […]

Overwinter Bee Mortality Insurance

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  Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) INSURANCE: OVERWINTER BEE MORTALITY INSURANCE PROGRAM (NEW FOR 2011 !) Purpose • This  program insures a producer’s bees against non-manageable abnormal wintering losses, including weather-related losses, diseases and pests where there are no adequate means of control. Eligibility • A producer who resides and operates an apiary in Manitoba and is registered as a beekeeper under The Bee Act (Manitoba) is eligible for this program. • Eligible producers must operate a minimum of 50 colonies. • Strong colonies (placed in either indoor or outdoor storage) and nuclear colonies placed in indoor storage are eligible for […]

Hawaiian Queen Importation Notice

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 This is to inform you that there have been recent instances of small hive beetles (SHB) found in shipments of honey bee queens originating from Hawaii.  On April 7, 2011 one live SHB adult was found associated with packaging material associated with queens in Manitoba and SHB early larval instars of SHB were found in queens received in Alberta and Manitoba.  Provincial Apiarists will be working closely with the CFIA and importers to ensure that Hawaiian queens are examined for SHB.  Although there are protocols in place to mitigate the risks of introducing and spreading the SHB from Hawaii, […]

Advance Payment Program

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Advance Payment For Crops for Beekeepers Since January 2009, Manitoba Corn Growers Association, in Carman, is administering the Advance Payment for Crops Program, for paid up Manitoba Honey Producers. Please call their offices at 1-877-598-5685, or 204-745-6661, and most any one who answers the phone can help you. Request a Cash Advance Program application form. As a Manitoba Honey Producer you are eligible for an interest free cash advance up to $100, 000, and interest bearing (usually at Prime Rate) after that to a total maximum of $400,000. Advance is calculated at about 90 cents per pound (may vary slightly […]

Advance Payment Program

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Advance Payment For Crops for Beekeepers Since January 2009, Manitoba Corn Growers Association, in Carman, is administering the Advance Payment for Crops Program, for paid up Manitoba Honey Producers. Please call their offices at 1-877-598-5685, or 204-745-6661, and most any one who answers the phone can help you. Request a Cash Advance Program application form. As a Manitoba Honey Producer you are eligible for an interest free cash advance up to $100, 000, and interest bearing (usually at Prime Rate) after that to a total maximum of $400,000. Advance is calculated at about 90 cents per pound (may vary slightly […]

Advance Payment Program

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Advance Payment For Crops for Beekeepers Since January 2009, Manitoba Corn Growers Association, in Carman, is administering the Advance Payment for Crops Program, for paid up Manitoba Honey Producers. Please call their offices at 1-877-598-5685, or 204-745-6661, and most any one who answers the phone can help you. Request a Cash Advance Program application form. As a Manitoba Honey Producer you are eligible for an interest free cash advance up to $100, 000, and interest bearing (usually at Prime Rate) after that to a total maximum of $400,000. Advance is calculated at about 90 cents per pound (may vary slightly […]