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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10799" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>That funding would have been enough to cover the study and the importation of parasites to help control passion vine hoppers. This would have the potential of saving millions of dollars for beekeepers every year and also millions of dollars in the horticultural industry where it is a major pest.</p><p>Instead we have a project that sounds reasonable but I can't really see how this will help the average beekeeper. New Zealand has a huge oversupply of both honey and beehives. We have reached the point with varoa where control is becoming increasingly expensive and increasingly ineffective. Crops in many areas are severely depressed because of gross overstocking and the cost of running hives has increased greatly because of the same problem. It also by the way makes the damage from varroa far worse. Pollination while it does have potential for income is already done by existing beekeepers and more people jumping on the bandwagon will not increase the fees that can be gained from this practice.</p><p>The reality is that all areas of New Zealand that are worth keeping hives in are already fully stocked, overstocked or grossly overstocked. Yes there would be some benefit from finding new markets for New Zealand honeys but surely that is already being done by the vast horde of new beekeeping companies out there.</p><p>The situation New Zealand beekeeping is in at the moment and it is a very bad situation was brought about at least in part by MPI vigourously encouraging the expansion of the New Zealand beekeeping industry when in reality there was nowhere for those hives to go.</p><p>There is a possibility things will get better but there is no possibility for sustainable growth of beehives and looking at the hundreds of tons of manuka sitting in people sheds I can't see much chance of sustainable growth in manuka prices either.</p><p>I'm tired of bureaucrats with no grasp of reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 10799, member: 207"] That funding would have been enough to cover the study and the importation of parasites to help control passion vine hoppers. This would have the potential of saving millions of dollars for beekeepers every year and also millions of dollars in the horticultural industry where it is a major pest. Instead we have a project that sounds reasonable but I can't really see how this will help the average beekeeper. New Zealand has a huge oversupply of both honey and beehives. We have reached the point with varoa where control is becoming increasingly expensive and increasingly ineffective. Crops in many areas are severely depressed because of gross overstocking and the cost of running hives has increased greatly because of the same problem. It also by the way makes the damage from varroa far worse. Pollination while it does have potential for income is already done by existing beekeepers and more people jumping on the bandwagon will not increase the fees that can be gained from this practice. The reality is that all areas of New Zealand that are worth keeping hives in are already fully stocked, overstocked or grossly overstocked. Yes there would be some benefit from finding new markets for New Zealand honeys but surely that is already being done by the vast horde of new beekeeping companies out there. The situation New Zealand beekeeping is in at the moment and it is a very bad situation was brought about at least in part by MPI vigourously encouraging the expansion of the New Zealand beekeeping industry when in reality there was nowhere for those hives to go. There is a possibility things will get better but there is no possibility for sustainable growth of beehives and looking at the hundreds of tons of manuka sitting in people sheds I can't see much chance of sustainable growth in manuka prices either. I'm tired of bureaucrats with no grasp of reality. [/QUOTE]
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