The Buzz Newsletter

April 2004

 

 

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Iowa Honey Producer's Association Committees

Please feel free to contact the committee chairman to help with the important tasks of running the IHPA. We sincerely want to accept your offers of help and feel that the organization will only improve with the additional workers. The current committees and the chair of each committee is listed below.

Awards.................. Mark Tintjer
Annual Meeting...... Steve Hanlin
Beekeeper Bio's .....Ron Wehr
Education ...............Steve Hanlin
Historian.................Curt Bronnenberg
Legislative ..............Mike Brahms
Membership ...........Jim Clark
Newsletter .............Tim Laughlin/Phil Ebert
Promotions ............Margaret Hala
Queen Program ......Regina Jager
State Fair ...............Donna Brahms

Help with your organization and say yes if asked to serve on a committee.

Submitted by Donna Brahms

 

EPA Approval Granted for the Use of
Coumaphos and Thymol

In an email to the IHPA Board Members, Steve Pedersen announced that Iowa beekeepers have received approval for the use of coumaphos (Checkmite+) and thymol (ApiLife VAR).

Thanks was also given to Chuck Eckermann, the Pesticide Bureau Chief, for his help in attaining the Section 18 exemption to use these products.

 

The 2004 IHPA Board Members

Front row L-R – Mary Ebert, Margaret Hala,
Steve Hanlin, Ron Wehr, Donna Brahms, and
Gordon Powell.

Back row L-R – Mark Tintjer, Jim Clark,
Curt Bronnenberg, Phil Ebert, and Mike Brahms.

Not Pictured – Tim Laughlin, photographer and
contributor of this IHPA Board Members Photo
taken January 24, 2004.