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Good vibes at Big Buzz Click the image above to view slideshow Grandma bee Carol Smith, from Helensville, with her grandchildren Felix and Elodie. From left, ApiNZ chief executive Karin Kos had nothing but praise for festival organisers, Grass Espoti and Isabella Sullivan. Every now and again, a working bee just has to take a break. Pictured at the Big Buzz Festival is Matakana School student, Hunter Murray. Organisers of what was believed to be New Zealand’s first honey and bee festival could not have got their timing more perfect last month. The Big Buzz was held at the Matakana School o...

Mānuka honey producers have been reaping the profits of selling pots of gold in recent years, but now there’s a surplus of non-mānuka varieties as beekeepers stockpile, hoping prices will recover. The NZ Herald’s Jane Phare looks at why the country is oozing with honey, in this Herald Premium article. It was always a Kiwi staple, honey on toast in the morning, a spoonful to help the medicine go down. It was sweet, yummy and affordable. Then, the so-called magical health benefits of mānuka honey became known worldwide causing export sales to take off. As the mānuka honey story reached ...

There're hopes the buzz around manuka honey will be passed on to ALL honey products There're hopes the buzz around manuka honey will be passed on to ALL honey products 20 February 2021 Apiculture New Zealand boss Karin Kos says while honey export revenue grew last year by 20-percent, non-manuka honey products are actually going down in price. She says that's a challenge for the industry. Karin Kos says they've had to find ways to raise the premium price across all types of honey - not just manuka. She says it's led to a drop in beekeeping operations nationally.

Japan threatens to stop importing NZ honey after detecting weed killer Newshub 20/01/2021 Replay Video UP NEXT Japan has threatened to stop importing New Zealand honey after detecting the weed killer glyphosate through random product testing.  Our Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says there's absolutely no food safety risk but it's introducing mandatory testing of all Kiwi-produced honey bound for Japan. "Japan has expressed a concern over the New Zealand honey exports not meeting the Japanese regulatory level for glyphosate," MPI manager Andrew Pearson told Newshub. Glyphosate is a ...

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has told the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) that if 5 per cent of imported honey exceeds its glyphosate limit, it will stop the honey coming into Japan. MPI food risk assessment manager at New Zealand Food Safety, Andrew Pearson, said as a response, glyphosate testing would be required before any New Zealand honey was exported to Japan. "Testing must be carried out in a laboratory approved to test for glyphosate in accordance with MPI's requirements," Pearson said. "If test results are not provided, MPI will not grant export certificat...