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2019 Keynote Speaker: Mel Disselkoen spoke on honey bee behavior and On The Spot Queen Rearing (OTS).
2019 Speaker: Katharina Davitt, Oregon State University Master Beekeeper Instructor, spoke on wax moths, bananas as a nutritional source for honey bees, and controlling yellow jackets.
2019 Speaker: Scott Brady spoke on BroodSafe, a new product using phages to control for American Foulbrood.
2019 Speaker: Derick Despain of the Utah State University Extension in Milford spoke on winter feeding of honey bees.
2019 Speaker: Joey Caputo of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food spoke on the status of honey bee health and inspections in Utah.
2019 Speaker: Peter Somers spoke on the disappearance of honey bee colonies.
2018 Keynote Speaker: Meaghan Milbrath of Michigan State University spoke on queen rearing in the age of Varroa, pollinators and pesticides, successful over-wintering, treatment-free beekeeping, and establishing colony sustainability in the first year.
2018 Speaker: James Rehm of Smoot Honey spoke about his family honey operation in Montana and their marketing program.
2018 Speaker: Joey Caputo of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food reported on bee inspections and honey bee health in Utah for 2017.
2018 Speaker: Jerry Stoddard, Past President, gave a presentation on making candy boards.
2018 Speaker: Blaine Nay, Bee Inspector from Iron County, spoke on honey bee health challenges.
Utah Department of Agriculture and Food held its 2017 Honey Bee Health Conference on November 30th, 2017 at Weber State University. Video from that conference is available here.
2017 Keynote Speaker: Keith Delaplane of the University of Georgia gave two presentations. Slides are not available.
2017 Speaker: Stephen Coy gave two presentations on Russian honey bees. Day 1 slides. Day 2 slides.
2017 Speaker: Diana Cox-Foster spoke about the health of honey bees and native bees.
2017 Speaker: Jerry Shue spoke about feral honey bees in Southeastern Utah.
2017 Presentations: Representatives from the Utah Department of Agriculture and foods gave three presentations. Noxious weeds in Utah, Regulations related to honey, and Summary of State Beekeeper efforts in 2016.
2017 Presentation: Earl Hoffman spoke on the use of microbials in combating honey bee diseases.
2017 Presentation: Al Chubak gave a presentation on the history of beekeeping in Utah.
2017 Presentation and Survey: Dean Hanniball solicited "Audacious Ideas" for consideration by the Association.
2017 Presentation: Daniel Odutan spoke at the annual banquet about modern beekeeping in Nigeria. He is Author of the Beekeeper's Illustrated Field Guide.
2016 Keynote Speaker: Patrick Heitkam - Many years ago, Pat Heitkam operated a bike shop and once received a bee hive as payment. Now, thousands of colonies later, he provides pollination for almonds and produces queens for beekeepers around the world. He is past president of the American Beekeeping Federation.
2015 Keynote Speaker: Jerry Hayes - Jerry received formal training in apiculture from Dr. Jim Tew at the Agricultural and Technical Institute of Ohio State University. From there he went to the USDA/ARS Bee Breeding and Stock Lab, which in those days was preparing for the African bee to move across the border and enter the United States. Next, Jerry worked for Dadant, North America’s largest beekeeping manufacturing and supply company, first as Regional Manager in Michigan and then at the home office in Hamilton, Illinois. While at Dadant he started writing the "Classroom" Q&A column for the American Bee Journal which in turn led to the book of the same name, Classroom. From 2004 until 2012, Jerry was the Chief of the Apiary Inspection Section of the Florida Department of Agriculture where he supervised the inspection of approximately 300,000 honey bee colonies and more than 2500 registered beekeepers, ranging from backyard enthusiasts to commercial migratory beekeepers with tens of thousands of colonies. He was one of the founding members of the Colony Collapse Working Group and so has intimate knowledge of CCD and honey bee health. He currently is at Monsanto working on a technology that uses a normal natural process called RNAi to see if it can be adapted to control honey bee parasites and pathogens safely, sanely and efficaciously. His personal goal is to be able to be a part of a team that uses this new technology to bring non-chemical Varroa control and the control of the Varroa/virus complex to our suffering and challenged industry.
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