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Group launches project aimed at saving honeybees

MBJ Staff — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:25:07 +0000

PEARL RIVER COUNTY — The Pearl River County Master Gardeners hope to boost the population of the Blue Orchard bee in south Mississippi with a project intended to attract this native pollinator to area backyards. The group, a volunteer organization facilitated by Mississippi State University’s Extension Service and committed to consumer horticulture education and community [...]

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EPA exempts products to fight varroa mite in honeybees

MBJ Staff — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:18:44 +0000

JACKSON — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved two emergency exemptions to help Mississippi beekeepers control damaging varroa mite infestations in honeybee colonies. The products are HopGuard, manufactured by BetaTec Hop Products, and Apivar, manufactured by Veto-Pharma S.A. HopGuard cardboard strips treated with potassium salt of hop beta acids may be inserted in honeybee [...]

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Beekeepers approved for product to control varroa mites

MBJ Staff — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:50:37 +0000

JACKSON — United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved an emergency exemption that will help Mississippi beekeepers control varroa mite infestations in honeybee colonies, according to Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith. The product receiving emergency exemption under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is the miticide HopGuard manufactured by [...]

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Ag commodities groups identify priorites for research, education

MBJ Staff — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:50:25 +0000

ABERDEEN — Advocates for agriculture met recently at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona to identify priorities for research and Extension Service education programs at Mississippi State University. Scientists from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, specialists with the MSU Extension Service and almost 250 members of the North Mississippi Producer [...]

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Beekeeping in Ellisville

Stephen McDill — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:57:54 +0000

ELLISVILLE- MBJ-TV travels to Ellisville for a beekeeping field exercise with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce’s Bureau of Plant Industry.

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