MONDAY |
A = Application |
8:30 am | Applying The Basics Of Bee Biology |
| Clarence Collison, Mississippi State Univ |
9:30 am | Analyzing The Best Bee/Apiary Location |
| Dewey Caron, Univ of Delaware |
10:00 am | Break (Individual Q & A) |
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B = Beekeeping through the season |
10:30 am | Bees In Fall & Winter |
| John Skinner, Univ of Tennessee |
11:15 am | Beekeeping In The Spring |
| Maryann Frazier, Penn State Univ. |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Bee Products; All You Need To Know |
| Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ |
2:00 pm | Bee Products Lab |
| Ann Harman, Master Beekeeper & Mike Stangellini |
2:30 pm | Break (Get ready for apiary visit) |
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C = Coping |
3:00 pm | Coping In The Apiary |
| Bill Troup, EAS Master Beekeeper, Mike Stangellini, Cliff Sunflower &
Rick Cooper How to open & inspect,
Seasonal management, Removing honey, Finding/
Evaluating Queens |
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MONDAY EVENING (joint session with Advanced Course) |
7:00 pm | ABC’s (con’t) |
9:00 pm | What English Beekeepers Can Teach Us |
| Maryann Frazier, Penn State Univ
Q & A – Panel of EXPERTS!
Dewey Caron, Maryann Frazier, Clarence Collison
& others |
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TUESDAY |
ABC’s OF BEEKEEPING (con’t) A = Applying |
8:30 am | Applied Bee Biology Of The Big Three Challenges: |
| Evaluating Queens – Clarence Collison
Halting Swarming – Dewey Caron
Winter Success – Jim Tew, OH State Univ |
10:00 am | Break (get ready for apiary visit) |
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B = Bee Yard |
10:30 am | In The Apiary |
| Bill Troup, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, PA State Apiarist
and Rick Cooper Looking for and solving
problems, Finding & Marking queens, Assessing
colony strength, & potential to swarm/produce
honey/overwinter |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
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C = Challenges |
1:15 pm | Challenges To Solve – Bee Mites |
| Jennifer Berry, Univ of Georgia |
1:45 pm | Apiary Inspect: Does it Work? |
| Dennis vanEngelsdorp |
2:30 pm | Break (Individual Q & A) |
3:00 pm | ABC’s Of Marketing Bee Products? |
| Kim Flottum, EAS Board Chairman |
4:00 pm | Agricultural Pesticides & Bees |
| Mike Stangellini |
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TUESDAY EVENING SOCIAL (both courses) |
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WEDNESDAY (joint session - both courses) |
A = Applying new research to old problems |
8:30 am | What IPM Means To My Beekeeping |
| Tom Webster, Kentucky State Univ |
9:00 am | Commercial Pollination & Colony Stress |
| Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ, NJ |
B = Bees are my business….. and I have fun too… |
9:30 am | The Biggest Business - Almond Pollination |
| Joe Traynor, Bakersfield, CA |
10:00 am | Break |
C = Challenges … will I bee ready to advance in next few years years? |
10:30 am | How To Ensure Better Queens |
| Dennis Keeney, PA queen breeder/beekeeper |
11:00 am | What The Crystal Ball Says… |
| Jeff Pettis, USDA, Beltsville, MD |
11:45 am | Wrapup & Evaluation |
| Dewey Caron & Ann Harman |