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Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

Business Scoop provides news and views on Business and Markets from New Zealand

Catherine Groenestein14:26, Jul 08 2021 Supplied Kenny Hofsteede of Egmont Honey, accepts the silver award the company won for its product packaging, at the Apiculture New Zealand national honey competition. Taranaki honey companies were named among the countrys sweetest in the recent Apiculture New Zealand National Honey Competition. Raul Mateas-Orban, of Tarata Honey, won a gold medal in the medium creamed honey class, while Egmont Honey was awarded gold for its medium liquid or clear honey,...

Yashas Srinivasa17:24, Jun 28 2021 Valentina Bellomo/Stuff Jarved Allan, operations manager for 100% Pure New Zealand honey, holds the A Timaru honey producer is the toast of the beekeeping industry after taking home eight medals at Apiculture New Zealand’s national honey competition, including the supreme award. “We came so close in 2019, so it feels good to finally win the award,” 100% Pure New Zealand’s operations manager Jarved Allan told Stuff. “And we’ll do it all over agai...

New Zealand has a wide variety of bees, with 27 native species, and more hives than in many other countries, says Smuts-Kennedy. However, around the world bee numbers are dropping, and with bees so important for the ecosystem steps need to be taken to protect them. Smuts-Kennedy says one of the main focuses of For The Love Of Bees is "making sure those bees have enough flowers". "They all need nectar and pollen, and so do all the other species they live in the ecosystem with, like butterflies a...

Survey provides insights into New Zealands bees and beekeeping practices 8 Apr, 2021 02:30 AM 3 minutes to read The Country A recently released survey reveals important findings on the winter colony loss rates of Kiwi bees, Apiculture New Zealand says. The latest New Zealand Colony Loss Survey showed that overall winter loss rates of bee colonies in New Zealand had continued to rise since the survey began in 2015. Over the 2020 winter, 11.3 per cent of bee colonies were lost compared to 10.4 pe...

Photo: AFP Figures from the Japans Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare show this year five New Zealand honey shipments, including one as recently as March, have been rejected by Japan for exceeding the countrys accepted trace levels for Glyphosate weed killer. The Ministry for Primary Industries said the trace levels did not present any food safety issues - but to meet Japanese standards it had introduced mandatory testing for honey exports to the country. It said it was likely all of the aff...