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<blockquote data-quote="Maggie" data-source="post: 4874" data-attributes="member: 71"><p>Couldn't agree more. Last winter I attended a presentation at a university, on research undertaken and written by a Professor and his team. It was advertised in beekeeping circles, and I rocked up. I would be fairly certain that I would be one of the few in the audience that had ever owned a hive. The dept had spent $250,000 on this research project from a grant by a big chemical company (I notice they now called themselves a health company) and the research had been done with two hives over one beekeeping season. The science graduates made it pretty clear they were not interested in honey bees, but that's what the grant was for. There was audience discussion after the presentation, and it was the biggest load of waffle out. Any beekeeping club in NZ could have run rings around this discussion. </p><p></p><p>I came away thinking what a phenomenal waste of $250,000, all the positive things that many in the industry could have done with this grant, and that these big companies throw a lot of money at "research" in the hope that someone will come up with a brilliant mega billions dollar earning idea. So, yes it's often great that we can hermit in this part of the world, but this is happening here also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggie, post: 4874, member: 71"] Couldn't agree more. Last winter I attended a presentation at a university, on research undertaken and written by a Professor and his team. It was advertised in beekeeping circles, and I rocked up. I would be fairly certain that I would be one of the few in the audience that had ever owned a hive. The dept had spent $250,000 on this research project from a grant by a big chemical company (I notice they now called themselves a health company) and the research had been done with two hives over one beekeeping season. The science graduates made it pretty clear they were not interested in honey bees, but that's what the grant was for. There was audience discussion after the presentation, and it was the biggest load of waffle out. Any beekeeping club in NZ could have run rings around this discussion. I came away thinking what a phenomenal waste of $250,000, all the positive things that many in the industry could have done with this grant, and that these big companies throw a lot of money at "research" in the hope that someone will come up with a brilliant mega billions dollar earning idea. So, yes it's often great that we can hermit in this part of the world, but this is happening here also. [/QUOTE]
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