Alberta Agriculture has released the results of its survey of winterkill of honey bees in 2014. Commercial beekeepers who own 400 or more colonies were surveyed, of which seventy-six percent responded. Medhat Nasr, provincial apiculturist, has the some of the highlights.
Interview with Medhat Nasr (2:04 minutes) (973 Kb)
We’ll have more with Nasr on tomorrow’s program.
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Source: Agriculture and Rural Development