On March 14th, Ian Steppler (director) and Daryl Wright (Secretary) of the Manitoba Beekeepers'Association sat down with Miles Beaudin, Director of Primary Agriculture Manitoba Agriculture and Rheal Lafreniere, Provincial Apiarist for a full day meeting around our industry support, growth and development.This was our second meeting with Miles in regards to a number of industry objectives the MBA has set out as priorities to protect and to move our Beekeeping industry forward. There was a lot accomplished during this meetingOur provincial disease inspection service has been negotiated for a 3 years term with further investment into the program to help achieve our 5% target. This will ensure our commercial operations are adequately covered and it will provide the flexibilityfor Rheal to administer the program to include smaller hobby type beekeepers into the program. We are extremely happy to have this program in place again and to have the increased investment to adapt this program to recognize our changing industry dynamics. This service has been identified as important to all commercial beekeepers.
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