Fall Meeting
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The Fall 2012 meeting & workshop will be held on November 16 &
17, at the Comfort Inn & Suites 6701 Buckley Road North Syracuse,
New York.
Please contact the Comfort Inn @ 315 457-4000 for your room
reservations and mention that you are with the "Beekeepers" to
get the group rate of $94.00. It is important that you make your
reservations prior to November 3rd to receive the group rate.
At this time we have three speakers:
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Dr. Thomas E. Rinderer, Research Leader and a Research Geneticist, joined the USDA Baton Rouge laboratory in 1975. Since that time he has conducted a wide variety of research projects concerning Africanized bees, honey bee behavior, genetics and honey production. Currently he leads the team that is further evaluating and developing a stock of bees from the Far East of Russia that has resistance to varroa mites. |
Steven Coy, lives in Perkinston, Miss., takes care of the southern end of the Coy’s Honey Farm operation , as well as raising queens to establish the new colonies. While most of the Coys’ honey is made from cotton and soybean nectar, they send several thousand hives each year to California where they are used to pollinate that state’s almond crop. Steven is also a Director of the American Honey Producers Association, President of the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association, and a member of the National Honey Bee Advisory Committee.
Michael Bush has had an eclectic set of careers from printing and graphic arts, to construction to computer programming and a few more in between. Currently he is working in computers. He has been keeping bees since the mid 70's, usually from two to seven hives up until the year 2000. Varroa forced more experimentation which required more hives and the number has grown steadily over the years from then. By 2008 it was about 200 hives. He is active on many of the Beekeeping forums with last count at about 45,000 posts between all of them. He has a web site on natural beekeeping at www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm
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