NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION HOBBY PROGRAMME 2008
Sunday 13th July
All hobbyist or new beekeepers welcome
9.30 am Cup of tea and welcome
10.00 Biology of the Bee (Frank Lindsay)
10.20 Siting your Apiary: local regulations (Neale Braithwaite)
(Wellington/Masterton/Palmerston North)
Note: all Councils are reviewing their by-laws)
10.40 Purchasing hives and equipment etc: three-quarter or full-depth hives (Neil Farrer)
11.00 Queen rearing simplified (Gary Jeffery)
11.20 Spring requeening versus autumn requeening (David Cramp)
11.40 Varroa treatments: ‘alternatives’ (Frank Lindsay)
LUNCH (1 hour: lunch provided)
1.00 pm Seasonal requirements of the bee (James Driscoll)
1.20 Honey processing (Anne Hulme)
1.40 Food hygiene regulations (Jim Sim, NZ Food Safety Authority)
2.00 Exotic disease (Byron Taylor)
2.20 AFB National Pest Management Strategy overview (Rex Baynes. Manager)
2.40 How to attract new members to your club (Carol Downer, Auckland Branch)
3.00 Panel discussion from the floor
3.30 Closing and thanks to the chair
Sunday 13th July
Active Manuka Honey Association
The AMHA Seminars are open to all members of the beekeeping industry
Seminar One 11am – 12 Noon
Medsafe & Claims
(Please bring a copy of your website and promotion material)
Seminar Two 1 pm – 2 pm
Processing Validation
AMHA AGM 2 pm
(Closed meeting: AMHA members only)
Monday 14 July
Specialty Group Meetings
Open to all the beekeeping Industry
9 - 10 am Review of the Organic Regulations Pertaining to Exports
Kay Shapland - NZFSA
This review carries on from an earlier meeting held at the BIG conference
10 -12 Noon New Zealand Queen Bee Producers Association
1 – 3 pm New Zealand Packers and Honey Exporters Association
3.15 - 5 pm New Zealand Honey Bee Pollination Association General meeting and AGM
6.30 pm Mix & Mingle in the Evening
7.00 pm Meet our overseas Guest Speaker:
Des Cannon, Australia – Australian research projects and their funding
Tuesday 15 July
8.00am Opening of the conference by the Mayor of Masterton
8.30 am–3 pm NBA AGM
Seminar
3.30 - 4 pm Honey Marketing – John Rawcliff
4.00 - 5 pm Bee Products Standard Council & Discussion
Follows on from the April meeting
6.00 pm Sponsors’ Evening & Presentations
Wednesday 16 July
National Pest Management Strategy Programme
8.30 am Welcome - Frans Laas
8.35 am AFB NPMS Manager’s Report - Rex Baynes
9.15 am Helicopter Surveillance Exercise - Frans Laas
9.45 am Morning Tea
10.15 am Annual Report – AsureQuality - Byron Taylor
10.45 am New Zealand Food Safety Authority - Greg Zemke-Smith
11.15 am Open Forum - Delegates
12.15 am Closure - Frans Laas
Note: The programme and timing maybe subject to minor alterations
Woman’s bus trip leaves 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Visits a number of places of interest including the Paua Factory and time for shopping.
Lunch at the Gladstone Hotel.
Afternoon Bus trip 12.noon to 4.30pm
Late Barbeque lunch at the Tui Brewery - escorted visited through the factory – sampling.
Wine and splits for those that don’t drink beer.
Note that suitable footwear must be worn as there could be broken glass on the floor.
For those not interested in shopping or seeing the sights, it is hoped that videos of the best presentations from Apimondia and the New South Wales 2008 conference will be screened for a couple of hours.
Conference Dinner (Formal dress) & Entertainment (Special Location)
6pm - Bus pick up from Hotel and Motels by arrangement only
DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!
Thursday 16 July
Seminars - technology in beekeeping
8.30 Remote hive weighing Des Cannon
9.00 BeeSpeak- Acoustic monitoring of hives - Clive Mitchell
9.30 Harvest Electronics - Remote weather stations – Peter Munn
10 am Morning tea
10.30 Protecting NZ honey: proof of origin (James Driscoll)
11.00 Climate change: the insurance effect and impact on the beekeeping industry (Wayne Thomas, FMG)
11.30 Tutin – results to date (Jim Sim, NZFSA)
12.00 Lunch
Seminars - where are we going
1.00 Manuka Honey Testing Procedures – Gordana Aleksic-NZLabs
1.30 Current research at the University of Waikato (Prof Peter Molan)
2.00 Possible bio-control of Varroa-Dr Mark Goodwin
2.30 E.F.B possible effect on NZ beekeeping - Murray Reid
3 pm Afternoon tea
3.30 Chemical Resistant Varroa - Dr Mark Goodwin
4.00 Small Hive Beetle in Australia - Des Cannon
4.30 Questions
