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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have released a handbook offering guidance on how to plant strategically to feed bees.

A new in-hive heat treatment is able to destroy the Varroa mite whilst keeping bees alive.

The COVID-19 crisis appears to have sparked a renewed interest in the healing properties of honey.

Apiculture NZ is seeking assurances from authorities that the country’s beekeepers won’t be faced with the same problems that their Auckland colleagues did when that region went into lockdown.

New Zealand's apiculture industry is still growing, according to a new report.

Supermarkets have put the squeeze on beekeepers who supply them, claims Jane Lorimer, NZ Beekeeping president.

Smaller beekeeper operations are struggling with non-manuka honey returns falling from $10-$12/kg two years ago to about $4/kg this year.

Have you given up milk in the name of sustainability? Think again.

Hundreds of beekeepers, packers and industry trade and suppliers will converge in Rotorua next month for Apiculture New Zealand’s national conference.

The honey market downturn has impacted the profitability of many beekeeping businesses, particularly those producing the non-manuka honeys, says Karin Kos, chief executive of Apiculture New Zealand.