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Bean Report - 4 Aug 2021

Harvest is underway in Manitoba.

Cassandra Tkachuk is a production specialist with Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers.

"For field peas, harvest has already begun for the earliest seeded and the earliest maturing crops. This is largely driven by the dry conditions. Some of the standing crops, they're still ranging from early to full maturity, which is R5 to R7 and we're seeing some greener crops out west."

She says soybeans are ranging from the full pod to the full seed stages.

Dry beans range from full pod to beginning seed stages.

Faba beans range from R5 to R6, which is full pod to beginning maturity.

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Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

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When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.