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Alberta Honey Bee Survey of Winterkill 2014 Results

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.

And a reminder you can listen to Call of the Land on your mobile device using the new Call of the Land App. It’s available for free from iTunes and the Google Play Store.

Source: Agriculture and Rural Development


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