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Iowa Honey Producers Association |
The Buzz Newsletter September 2007 |
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IHPA Award Nominations It is time to think of who should receive one
of the Awards that the IHPA presents at the Annual Meeting banquet.
Please review the categories and submit your suggestions along
with a short letter explaining why you feel that this candidate
should receive an award. The categories that we present are as
follows: 2. Distinguished Service Award- for assisting other beekeepers, willing to share information, and /or serving the association. 3. Education Award- teaching beekeeping classes, speaking at service clubs, giving presentations to school children or speaking about beekeeping on radio or T.V. 4. Promotions Award- for promoting honey and beekeeping, promotions for the state association or promoting their own product. 5. Friendship Award- for being a friend of the association. This could be someone who has displayed at the annual IHPA trade show, a state official who has assisted or encouraged beekeeping, someone outside our industry of producing honey. 6. Youth Award- for a young
person who has shown commendable involvement in such things as
helping the state fair, successfully keeping bees for at least
one season including wintering, writing, making a float for a
parade, speaking, etc. Donna Brahms Iowa Code Includes Did you know that beekeeping in Iowa is included in the Iowa Code? The Iowa Code is the listing of the laws that the legislature has passed concerning every topic imaginable. Beekeeping is included. If you are interested you can go to the Iowa Code web page and look for beekeeping references. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Code.html There are listings for the State Apiarist duties
and requirements, the exemption of honey from the food code inspection
process for sales of honey to grocery stores, the interstate travel
of honey bees, (you need to have your hives inspected to remove
them from the state) and there are rules governing the sale of
frames of wax to try to control the spread of diseases from one
beekeeper to another. If you are selling hive bodies and they
contain drawn comb, the comb needs to be inspected. These rules
are in effect to protect the beekeepers of the state and to control
the spread of diseases such as American foul brood from one beekeeper
to another. That is why there is an inspection program administered
by the Agriculture Department. If you have any questions concerning
the inspection rules, please contact Maury Wills at IDALS.
Please join us for the September meeting of CIBA on September 22 at Ryan’s Family Steak House, 1900 NW 86th Street, Clive, IA. We will meet at 6:00pm for dinner followed by a short meeting and a program featuring W. John Johnson talking about “Back to Basics of Over Wintering Honeybees”. Your participation in our discussion would be greatly appreciated. Youth Scholarship If you know of a youth who would like to become a beekeeper, please have them get an application from our website, ABuzzAboutBees.com, or by contacting the Youth Scholarship Chairman, Mike Brahms at (712) 774-5878. The requirements are: Be a youth between the ages of 12 and 17. Be from a non beekeeping family. Send in the completed application by September 15th to: Mike Brahms We had five of our current youth beekeepers and their families work the sales booth at the Iowa State Fair. All of the current youth scholarship winners are doing great and the mentors are reporting that they are becoming quite proficient in beekeeping.
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