Conference

Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 04:35 PM

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

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 10:38 PM

MONDAY 14th JULY 2008
Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park MASTERTON

10am - 12 NZ Queen Bee Producer Association
General Meeting followed by AGM

1pm - 3pm NZ Honey Packers & Exporters Association AGM

3.15 - 5pm NZ Honey Bee Pollination Association
General Meeting followed by AGM
All welcome.

Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 02:54 PM

Click on the link below to get more details how to get to Masterton by:
Taxi
Co-op Shuttle
Met link Airport Flyer Buses
Trains to the Wairarapa
Helicopter

If you let us and the hotel know your are travelling by train you can be met at the Solway station just let the guard/ driver know you what to get off at Solway station.

Please note there is no direct bus link to Masterton from Wellington

Link to Transport to the Wairarapa.

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 11:40 PM

Please click on the conference registration form to download and fill in.

Please send your completed registration form and payment to:
Mary-Ann Lindsay, Conference Treasurer, 26 Cunliffe Street, Johnsonville, Wellington 6037
E-mail: lindsays.apiaries@xtra.co.nz.


Please forward this accommodation reservation form direct to the Copthorne Hotel & Resort, Solway Park, Wairarapa. Reservations Manager, in order to secure your accommodation for the National Beekeepers Association Conference, Sunday 13th - Thursday 17th July 2008.

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 05:48 PM

NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NZ (INC)
SEMINAR & CONFERENCE 2008

Please come and help us celebrate our Branch Centenary to be held at
Solway Park & Conference Centre, Masterton
13 JULY - 17 JULY 2008

Sunday 13 July
Hobby Forum : Everyone welcome

Monday 14 July
Specialty Group Meetings
Guest Speaker ?
Mix & Mingle in the Evening

Tuesday 15 July
Seminar with various speakers
NBA Annual General Meeting
Sponsors Evening & Presentations

Wednesday 16th July
NPMS AGM
Bus Trips
Conference Dinner (Formal dress) & Entertainment (Special Location)

Thursday 17th July
Seminar with various Speakers

THE NBA WELCOMES ALL MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS TO JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING AND INFORMATIVE CONFERENCE 2008
CELEBRATING OVER 100 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHERN NORTH ISLAND OF NZ

Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 07:39 PM

The annual conference of the National Beekeepers Association of New Zealand Inc. will be held at Solway Park in Masterton from the 14th to the 18th of July, 2008.

Further information will be published as it arrives from the organising committee.

Friday, June 29, 2007 - 08:27 PM

The National Beekeepers'Association of New Zealand Inc.
gratefully acknowledges the strong support it has received
for the 2007 Annual Conference in Dunedin.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 07:19 PM

Kindly Sponsored by:


Mike Brown is the Head of the National Bee Unit of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DFRA) at the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) in the United Kingdom.

Mike’s initial background and training is commercial beekeeping. Before joining the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) National Bee Unit (NBU) he worked in commercial beekeeping in France, Tunisia and California. In France he worked for one of the largest French bee businesses, Famille Mary, who run over 2,000 colonies for honey, royal jelly and pollen production and specialise in sales of a wide range of apiculture products (including 30 different types of honey) by mail order. In Tunisia he worked on a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) project looking at various varroa control options including essential oils (his first contact with the varroa mite). In the USA he helped manage a queen-rearing business in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California for a number of years.

In 1988 Mike joined the National Bee Unit, and was responsible for laboratory diagnostics, apiary management and commercial work, moving to managing the field advisory and inspection service from 1993- 2002. He became Head of the integrated NBU in April 2003 with responsibility for management of the bee health programmes in England and Wales on behalf of UK governments (Defra and the Welsh Assembly) comprising:
• General apiculture and colony management: bee diseases, their diagnosis, recognition and control
• Training and extension programmes
• Regulatory affairs and import risk analysis, technical support to Policy
• Supporting research and development of the bee health programme.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 07:18 PM

The conference seminar programme features:
• Bee and Bee Product Research
• World Trade
• Technology In Beekeeping
• Varroa and Bee Disease Management

Read the full Seminar Programme.