Commercial Beekeeping

Author : Ron Miksha
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : 1412006279

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Bad Beekeeping by Ron Miksha Pdf

A million pounds of honey. Produced by a billion bees! This memoir reconstructs the life of a young man from Pennsylvania as he drops into the bald prairie badlands of southern Saskatchewan. He buys a honey ranch and keeps the bees that make the honey. But he also spends winters in Florida swamps, nurse-maid to ten thousand dainty queen bees. From the dusty Canadian prairie to the thick palmetto swamps of the American south, the reader meets with simple folks who shape the protagonist's character - including a Cree rancher with three sons playing NHL hockey, a Hutterite preacher who yearns to roam the globe, a reclusive bee-eating homesteader, and a grey-headed widow who grows grapefruit, plays a nasty game of scrabble, and lives with four vicious dogs. Encompassing a ten-year period, this true story evolves from the earnest inexperience of the young man as he learns an art and builds a business. Carefully researched natural biology runs counterpoint to human social activities. Bee craft serves as the setting for expositions that contrast American and Canadian lifestyles, while exemplifying the harsh reality of a man working with and against the physical environment.

Author : G.P. Painkra
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357642088

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Commercial Beekeeping by G.P. Painkra Pdf

Beekeeping/apiculture is the maintenance of honey bee colonies in beehives. Beekeepers keep honey bees to collect honey and other bee products like beeswax, propolis,pollen,royal jelly, bee venom,pollination of crops, raising queens and other sources of beekeeping income. Bee hives are kept in an apiary or bee yard. Bees play a vital role in the natural and agricultural ecosystems. Besides their valuable and healthy products, bees and other pollinators like butterflies help in pollinating approximately three-quarters of plants that produce about 90% of world food. The person who maintains the beehives is known as an apiarist or a beekeeper. The main goal of this manuscript is to provide complete and simplified reach out to understanding of the basic knowledge of beekeeping to the students of B.Sc.(Ag.) Hons final year.

Author : Dharm Singh
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789388812955

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Commercial Beekeeping by Dharm Singh Pdf

Honeybees are an amazing insects on earth which pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants including 70 of the top 100 human food crops. One third of total diet is directly or indirectly dependent on honeybee pollinated plants. It reflect that without bees people could struggle to sustain the global human population of 9 billion by 2050. Presently, we are losing bees world-over at an alarming rate. If honeybee disappears from surface of the earth, we may loss all plants that bees pollinates, all of the animals that eat those plants and ultimately man would have no more than four years to live. Therefore, it is an urgent need to love these valuable mini-creatures, raise voice everywhere to protect them and enhance their population through beekeeping. Beekeeping is widely recognized economically sustainable occupation which offer an attractive avenues for livelihood, employment generation, holistic development of rural societies and survival of human through ensured food security. This book deals different issues of commercial beekeeping and provide scientific, authentic and very useful information on various aspects. The subject matter is presented in a comprehensive & lucid style which make this book very useful. Moreover, international demand, import-export, market-outlook, producers & suppliers of value-added bee-hive products, role of different agencies in beekeeping development and model project reports appended add great values. This book, thus, has enormous scope and opportunities to address food & health security problems, upliftment of Farm-output, promotion of food industries and employment generation. This manuscript will also be more useful to assist Agri-business Planners, policy makers, Researchers, industrialists, teachers, students & farmers world-over who are interested in beekeeping-based commercial enterprises for their livelihood and income generation.

Author : Ross Conrad
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781603583633

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Natural Beekeeping by Ross Conrad Pdf

Whether you are a novice looking to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Now revised and updated with new resources and including full-color photos throughout, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects, including: The basics of bee biology and anatomy Urban beekeeping Identifying and working with queens Parasitic mite control Hive diseases Also, a completely new chapter on marketing provides valuable advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of hive products. Other chapters include: Hive Management Genetics and Breeding The Honey Harvest The Future of Organic Beekeeping Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” strategies for keeping honeybees healthy and productive with nontoxic methods of controlling mites; eliminating American foulbrood disease without the use of antibiotics; selective breeding for naturally resistant bees; and many other detailed management techniques, which are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.

Author : John Gruszka
Publisher : Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Publishing Branch
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085809873

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Beekeeping in Western Canada by John Gruszka Pdf

A comprehensive manual on all aspects of beekeeping, including bee physiology and biology, getting started, nectar and pollen plants, supplementary feeding, honey extraction and production, bee health and marketing. Includes illustrations and colour photographs.

Author : Les Crowder,Heather Harrell
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781603584623

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Top-Bar Beekeeping by Les Crowder,Heather Harrell Pdf

Top-Bar Beekeeping is an offering designed to encourage beekeepers around the world to keep bees naturally by providing beekeeping basics, hive management and the utilization of top-bar hives. In recent years, beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges, from pests, such as varroa and tracheal mites, to the mysterious but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully, even without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs. More and more organically-minded beekeepers are now using top-bar hives, in which the shape of the interior resembles a hollow log. Long lasting and completely biodegradable, a top-bar hive made of untreated wood allows bees to build comb naturally rather than simply filling prefabricated foundation frames in a typical box hive with added supers. Top-bar hives yield slightly less honey but produce more beeswax than a typical Langstroth box hive. Regular hive inspection and the removal of old combs helps to keep bees healthier and naturally disease-free. Top-Bar Beekeeping provides complete information on hive management and other aspects of using these innovative hives. All home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in keeping bees intensively should consider the natural, low-stress methods outlined in this book. It will also appeal to home orchardists, gardeners, and permaculture practitioners who look to bees for pollination as well as honey or beeswax.

Author : Charles D. Owens,Benjamin F. Detroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : MINN:31951002848523H

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Selecting and Operating Commercial Beekeeping Equipment by Charles D. Owens,Benjamin F. Detroy Pdf

Author : Paul R. Greenland,AnnaMarie L. Sheldon
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438110677

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Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment by Paul R. Greenland,AnnaMarie L. Sheldon Pdf

Provides information on the duties, salaries, employment prospects, and skills, training, or education necessary for more than sixty-five jobs that focus on nature and the environment.

Author : Harry J. Whitcombe,John Scott Douglas
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789126563

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Bees Are My Business by Harry J. Whitcombe,John Scott Douglas Pdf

When Harry Whitcombe was seven years old he persuaded a not very enthusiastic father to let him have a hive of bees. From that day on, bees were his business. It was often a precarious business, but it was to prove its worth more than once during the depression, when Whitcombe, still in high school, helped balance the family budget by selling five-gallon cans of honey to a local grocer. Later the sale of his apiary, grown to a hundred colonies, helped pay his way through college. As time went on, Harry Whitcombe found that his real interest lay in the part beekeeping could be made to play in replenishing the soil through pollination of crops. There were many lean years, but Harry Whitcombe persisted, and he became one of the largest shippers of package bees in the world. He was the first man ever to ship bees by plane and his bees were flown all over the United States and Canada and to Europe, India, Korea, Guam and Israel. This heartwarming human success story is told against a background rich in information of vast importance to all of us and of practical value to beekeepers. With amazing clarity the authors describe the science of beekeeping from elementary facts about hives and swarms, to the science of pollination. It is the only book of its kind that relates the story of the beekeeping industry to agriculture. It tells the story of modern commercial beekeeping and vividly describes how bee pollination contributes to man’s dinner table in meat, milk, butter, vegetables and fruits. It explains how the application of insecticides, such as DDT, kills both beneficial as well as injurious insects and how the honey bee has taken over pollination for continued production of many crops.

Author : John Edward Eckert,Frank Robert Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : WISC:89044404382

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Beekeeping by John Edward Eckert,Frank Robert Shaw Pdf

Author : Rebecca Ellis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000645903

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Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis by Rebecca Ellis Pdf

Capitalist agriculture relies heavily on the pollination work of bees, but this system harms bees in innumerable ways. Indeed, human agriculture is one of the main culprits for the declining populations of wild bees and the declining health of honeybees. This book presents a political ecology of pollination that critically examines how managed honey bees and wild bees are harmed by capitalist agriculture. The book focuses on the three most urgent problems: the standardization and simplification of landscapes through monocultures; the use of pesticides including neonicotinoids, other insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and the embeddedness of commercial, migratory beekeeping in the capitalist agriculture system which, among other things, has the potential to spread pests and pathogens across continents. At the heart of this crisis is the power and influence that a small group of agrochemical corporations have over national and international agricultural policy. The book argues for an interspecies alliance of small-scale farmers, bee advocates, beekeepers, environmentalists, and bees themselves, along with a vision for an agricultural system that nurtures multispecies flourishing. This book will be of significant interest to readers of political ecology, animal geography, environmental anthropology, food system studies, and critical animal studies.

Author : Joy McEwen,Eric McEwen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781645021940

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Raising Resilient Bees by Joy McEwen,Eric McEwen Pdf

With over 100 color photographs and illustrations, Raising Resilient Bees is the comprehensive source for new and experienced beekeepers, offering a sustainable, natural, and repeatable model of care for hive health and production. Global pests and diseases present an unprecedented challenge for the modern honey bee. Hobby and commercial beekeepers alike continue to experience troubling rates of mortality for their colonies, with potentially deleterious consequences for the stability of our wider ecosystems and overall food security. It is time for a global focus on restoring the health of the shared apiary through naturally reared, genetically diverse, and resilient lines of bees. Raising Resilient Bees establishes these parameters and provides guidance for new and experienced beekeepers alike to translate these goals into real practice, thereby safeguarding the honey bee from the unknown threats of the future. Authors Eric and Joy McEwen take two decades worth of beekeeping experience, experiments, and professional production to deliver groundbreaking methods in queen-rearing, varroa mite management, and Natural Nest hive design. Inside, you’ll discover: • Revived and adapted heritage Integrated Pest Management techniques • How to naturally rear queens and select for resilient, mite-resistant genetic lines without relying on swarming or grafting • Key tenets of apicentric beekeeping • Advice for establishing a flourishing and sustainable business with beekeeping at the center • How to naturally rear bees with distinctive characteristics suitable to their locale As in large-scale agriculture, the trend toward genetic homogenization is having long-term implications for bees’ capacity to withstand diverse environmental stressors. With expert advice, enthusiasm, and easy-to-follow instructions, Raising Resilient Bees delivers important and timely information for every beekeeper to create a healthier future.

Author : Andrew Matheson,Murray Reid
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781775593744

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Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand by Andrew Matheson,Murray Reid Pdf

Author : Sarah Jacobs
Publisher : Self Publisher
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788835874478

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Beekeeping by Sarah Jacobs Pdf

Are you interested in beekeeping? Are you wondering how you can make a beekeeping business profitable? These are just two of the many questions that will be answered in this book. Along with an extensive business plan, this guide offers information about bee stings and diseases, the anatomy of bees, pollinators, swarms, packaged bees, honey business, and so much more. You cannot mis this essential gem of a book. Get it now!

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Apimondia,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio e Toscana
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251346129

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Good beekeeping practices for sustainable apiculture by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Apimondia,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio e Toscana Pdf

Bees provide a critical link in the maintenance of ecosystems, pollination. They play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival of many plants, enhancing forest regeneration, providing sustainability and adaptation to climate change and improving the quality and quantity of agricultural production systems. In fact, close to 75 percent of the world’s crops that produce fruits and seeds for human consumption depend, at least in part, on pollinators for sustained production, yield and quality. Beekeeping, also called apiculture, refers to all activities concerned with the practical management of social bee species. These guidelines aim to provide useful information and suggestions for a sustainable management of bees around the world, which can then be applied to project development and implementation.