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Apiculture New Zealand (ApiNZ) is backing Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor’s plea for greater unity among beekeepers.

Sampling has been completed for the largest and most detailed study of honey bee health ever undertaken in New Zealand.

Commercial beekeepers have voted not to support the introduction of a honey levy.

Beekeeper board members of ApiNZ outline why a commodity levy on honey is needed.

Apiculture NZ is urging commercial beekeepers to vote for a commodity levy, with voting papers going out this month.

OPINION: It's time all honeys are given the same respect that we are trying to give to manuka. 

A major campaign is in its final stages to gain support for a commodity levy for the bee industry.

OPINION: Honey isn't the gold mine the media often sets it out to be.

A lad from a dairy farm in Wairarapa has commercialised bee-keeping technology after a prototype invention won him the 2013 Fieldays Innovation Awards in the Launch NZ category.

Manuka honey could long term earn more money for a central North Island Maori trust than its sheep and beef farming operation.