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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 2909" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Sort of, but not quite.</p><p></p><p>First, I'm going to say that I got my first job commercial beekeeping around 49 years ago. At that time I noticed the argumentative nature of beekeeper politics, and how there was never any system that pleased everyone. At a very young age I decided to avoid beekeeping politics, and have rarely attended any conferences.</p><p></p><p>The industry has always been full of discord, and people who will argue black is white.</p><p></p><p>So why was APINZ set up? At the time I was an NBA member. Corporate beekeeping was entering the picture and there was the usual discord and moaning, this time being directed at the NBA. A road show was held promoting the formation of a new organisation with different governance. The plan was to form it and merge the NBA into it.</p><p></p><p>Of course as per normal in beekeeping politics, there were those who were not happy with this, so shortly after the formation of APINZ, those disaffected formed an opposition group, and canvased all the beekeepers they could contact to attempt to get them to defect from APINZ and join the opposition group.</p><p></p><p>The government did not want to deal with different representatives that couldn't stand each other they wanted to keep it simple and deal with one entity, APINZ seemed the right choice at the time.</p><p></p><p>Beekeepers in NZ have almost never presented a united front, and certain elements will happily sabotage and undermine each other. The cantancerous nature of this thread is a typical example, normal NZ beekeeping politics. This has been and will continue to be to the detriment of us all.</p><p></p><p>My opinion only, the way it has appeared to me over my time in the industry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 2909, member: 13"] Sort of, but not quite. First, I'm going to say that I got my first job commercial beekeeping around 49 years ago. At that time I noticed the argumentative nature of beekeeper politics, and how there was never any system that pleased everyone. At a very young age I decided to avoid beekeeping politics, and have rarely attended any conferences. The industry has always been full of discord, and people who will argue black is white. So why was APINZ set up? At the time I was an NBA member. Corporate beekeeping was entering the picture and there was the usual discord and moaning, this time being directed at the NBA. A road show was held promoting the formation of a new organisation with different governance. The plan was to form it and merge the NBA into it. Of course as per normal in beekeeping politics, there were those who were not happy with this, so shortly after the formation of APINZ, those disaffected formed an opposition group, and canvased all the beekeepers they could contact to attempt to get them to defect from APINZ and join the opposition group. The government did not want to deal with different representatives that couldn't stand each other they wanted to keep it simple and deal with one entity, APINZ seemed the right choice at the time. Beekeepers in NZ have almost never presented a united front, and certain elements will happily sabotage and undermine each other. The cantancerous nature of this thread is a typical example, normal NZ beekeeping politics. This has been and will continue to be to the detriment of us all. My opinion only, the way it has appeared to me over my time in the industry. [/QUOTE]
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