Alberta Bee News
February 2023
Advocating for Commercial Honey Producers and Pollinators in Canada. Excerpt from the newly launched Canadian Beekeepers Federation website
www.canadianbeekeepers.ca/ We are currently engaging a lobbyist and others to help navigate and facilitate the immediate access to package bees from the mainland USA. Maintaining existing legislation, provinces manage their own rules for cross-border importation from other provinces. Time is of the utmost importance. The criteria to join this group is $2;500 for a 500 beehive or more operation. The goal to achieve is to tackle the problems across Canada as they arise for commercial producers. It is not to replace the Canadian Honey Council, however we do need to have a more inclusive, flexible and faster reacting organization for the problems affecting commercial beekeepers. This group is a national organization for large beekeepers, pollinators, honey producers and queen and nuc producers. There is room in Canada for everyone to operate their farm without impeding or affecting others.
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