It's turning out to be a lousy summer, the uncharacteristically wet and cold weather has devastated the season in both southcentral and interior Alaska. Things got so bad, the Southcentral Alaska Beekeepers Association voted last month to cancel its honey booth at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. The association represents more than 100 beekeepers in Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Beekeepers say temperatures often were too cold for bees to leave hives.

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For many Chinese people, it's become a habit to add honey to milk, spread it on bread, or just simply stir some into a cup of warm water for breakfast every morning. It's not just for the sweet taste but more for its rich nutrition and special function in traditional Chinese medicine, such as dispelling toxins and pathogenic heat, relieving pain and nourishing yin (cold) energy. Honey, composed of various micro-elements such as vitamins, iron, calcium and copper as well as various enzymes, is a great nutritious supplement. And with about 80 percent of it easily assimilated glucose and fructose, honey is suitable for almost everyone, especially for elderly people with a weak digestive system. Apart from its widely recognized nutritional value, honey is also Chinese people's favorite as a 'neutral' food with medicinal properties. In the 'Compendium of Materia Medica,' the TCM classic by pharmacist Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), honey can help dispel pathogenic heat, clear away toxins, relieve pain and combat dehydration.

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Pam G.Marrone, Ph.D reports on the development of a new 'green' pesticide obtained from an extract of the Giant knotweed plant, commonly called Goliath ( Reynoutria sachalinensis), at the recent American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia. 'The product is safe to humans, animals, and the environment,' says Marrone, founder and CEO of Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc., in Davis, California. The new biopesticide has active compounds that alert plant defenses to combat a range of diseases, including powdery mildew, gray mold and bacterial blight that affect fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals. The product will be available this October for conventional growers, according to Marja Koivunen, Ph.D., the director of R&D for Marrone. A new formulation has also been developed for organic farmers and will be available in 2009. Synthetic pesticides dominate the 30 billion dollars pesticide market, but biopesticdes should reach a billion dollars by 2010, about 4.25% of the global pesticide business.

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'Return on your money buzzing'. This is the slogan of the Dutch company Koppert to promote Natupol hives, a new production system that ensures a bumble increase in the percentage of success in the production process from 50 to 90% in breeding queen bee of the highest quality.

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Small and medium-sized producers of honey, will benefit from loans and technical assistance, as a result of a financing agreement between the IDB and the Foundation for Microenterprise Development, Fudemi. 15 thousand hives, some are in the hands of beekeepers in rural Nicaragua. The production and marketing of honey, both in the local market and internationally, generates the country, nearly a million dollars a year.

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The German organization Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought legal action against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer AG Board of Management, by filing a charge against him with the public prosecutor in Freiburg. The group accuses Bayer CropScience of 'marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world.' The coalition filed the charge in cooperation with German beekeepers who claim they lost thousands of hives after poisoning by the Bayer pesticide clothianidin in May.

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It is estimated that between 5,000 to 10,000 people with MS in the United States use bee sting therapy, so some people must find that it helps them and isn?t unbearable. Read on for more details.

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In 2001, Knight and his family bought their first two hives and placed them in a friend's pumpkin patch to see how they would fare. Seven years later, they have about 400 colonies from one end of Utah County to the other and beyond, and are living completely off the revived family business, called Knight Family Honey. The Knights have a small honey extractor in their garage with which they make around 10,000 to 15,000 pounds (4.2 to 6.3 tons) of a honey a year. They sell the product at local farmers' markets and ship all over the country per people's requests. They rent out a professional kitchen to make their now-famous honey butter, which is quickly becoming their most popular item. The family also generates income from pollination, in which farmers pay to use their bees to pollinate fields. The annual almond crops in California are the biggest payouts, Knight said.

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Faced with the collapse of the apicultural activity in the United States and Europe by a strange illness, beekeepers of Quintana Roo have before them a great expectation, we have to do is to strengthen our inventory of producers and provide the necessary support to enable them leave the emergency faced, said graduate Hernan Herrera Jimenez, assistant secretary of the Indigenous Development SEDARI. The state official noted the preceding question from a reporter, and admitted that now, the high demand of producers organized in the grouping headed by Professor Pedro Celestino Uicab Poot, is to have enough sugar for feeding their apiaries. It should be noted that the leader of beekeepers reported that at least require some 400 tons of sugar to feed the apiaries

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