Local Heroes: Kalamazoo apiarist builds Homeboy Honey to help protect bee population
Via WWMT.
Texas bee decline. New filings, studies and numbers. Every item links to its source.
Via WWMT.
Via KXAN Austin.
Via The Times of India.
Agriculture Department, Commodity Credit Corporation. Rule. This rule revises the regulations of the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), the Tree Assistance Program (TAP), the Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) and Loan Deficiency…
Commerce Department, International Trade Administration. Notice. The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Ban Me Thout Honeybee Joint Stock Company (BMT) and DakLak Honeybee Joint Stock Company (DakHoney), sold raw honey from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (…
University of Illinois farmdoc daily (Altschuler, Goodrich, Janzen, May 8, 2026), using USDA's $129-per-colony value. Colony losses themselves cost about $175 million, 29% of $602 million in honey, pollination and other revenue. Added plus renovated colonies exceeded colonies lost every year from 2020 to 2024. The authors write that total inventories 'have remained relatively stable since 2008' while beekeepers lose about 41% of colonies a year.
Texas Crop and Weather - March 31, 2026 The post Texas beekeepers navigate a mixed honey harvest appeared first on AgriLife Today .
Commerce Department, International Trade Administration. Notice. The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Ban Me Thout Honeybee Joint Stock Company (BMT), Daklak Honeybee Joint Stock Company (DakHoney), and 12 non-individually examined and separate-rate eligible exporters of raw honey from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietna…