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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 […]

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 […]

Varroa Mite Monitoring

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A project of the Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association with funding provided by Growing Forward’s “Food Safety Program, For Farms”. Made possible with contributions from Merv Malyon, David Ostermann, Rhéal Lafrenière, Dr. Rob Currie, Midcan Production Services, and others.  

Varroa Mite Monitoring

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A project of the Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association with funding provided by Growing Forward’s “Food Safety Program, For Farms”. Made possible with contributions from Merv Malyon, David Ostermann, Rhéal Lafrenière, Dr. Rob Currie, Midcan Production Services, and others.  

Bylaws, Registration, Applications and Membership

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This page is primarily for the information and action for all Honey Producers operating at any time within the province of Manitoba, Canada, who, within any given calendar year, have 50 or more honey bee colonies for production of honey, queens, hive splits and/or nuclear colonies. Producers submitting fees to MBA become Registered Non-Voting Members. To become a Full Voting Member, you must complete the Designated Representative documents available as downloads (see next paragraph). See below for links to downloads for MBA Membership materials -MBA Administrative Bylaws, plus Registration, and Application for Membership forms: Honey Producers are eligible to purchase […]

Newsletter Article Submission

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If you would like to write for the Manitoba Beekeeper newsletter, we would welcome your article. The guidelines for article submission when in the form of an electronic file are as follows: Microsoft Word files are acceptable Plain Ascii Text files are acceptable Articles in the body of an email are acceptable. Please avoid formatting your document, as it will not carry through to the final publication. This means no tables, tabs, indents, etc. We require a format will simple block paragraphs with single returns between them. Images to be included in article should be provided separately. High quality .tif […]

Newsletter Article Submission

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If you would like to write for the Manitoba Beekeeper newsletter, we would welcome your article. The guidelines for article submission when in the form of an electronic file are as follows: Microsoft Word files are acceptable Plain Ascii Text files are acceptable Articles in the body of an email are acceptable. Please avoid formatting your document, as it will not carry through to the final publication. This means no tables, tabs, indents, etc. We require a format will simple block paragraphs with single returns between them. Images to be included in article should be provided separately. High quality .tif […]