Atlantic Canadian beekeepers meeting pollination needs

by Andrew Byers

Nationally, there’s a shortage of honeybees and a high demand for pollination services this season! The challenges of overwintering losses and disease have led to a perceived crisis in the Canadian pollination industry. Some individual Canadian beekeepers reported overwintering losses of 80-90 percent, which means as much as 90 percent of their honeybee colonies were dead this spring. Those individual farmers will take years to recover.

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