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July 12-14, 2012
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Meeting Agenda
Thursday, July 12, 2012 |
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10:00 am |
NCSBA Executive
Committee Meeting |
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10:00 am |
Registration |
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12:45 pm |
Call to Order & Welcome :Danny Jaynes, NCSBA President
Invocation (Robeson County Beekeepers) Mitch Mercer
Announcements |
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1:00-1:55 pm |
Keynote Speaker: Dr.
Malcolm Sanford,
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2:00-2:50 pm |
Presentation: Virginia
Webb, Marketing
Honey |
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2:50-3:45 pm |
Presentation:
Bob Harvey,
Queen Rearing |
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3:50-4:10 pm |
Break – Visit Vendor Booths |
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4:10-4:15 pm |
Door prizes |
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4:15-5:00 pm |
Presentation:
Ray Revis,
Russian Bee Update |
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5:00 pm |
General Session End |
Friday, July 13, 2012 |
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8:00-9:00 am |
NCSBA Executive
Committee Meeting |
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8:00 am |
Registration |
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9:00 am |
Call to Order & Welcome: Julian Wooten (NCSBA 1st VP)
Announcements and Door
prizes |
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9:05-10:00 am |
Keynote Speaker:
Virginia Webb, |
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10:05-10:55 am |
Presentation: Dr.
Ambrose,
Certified Honey Label
and Honey Standards
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10:55-11:10 am |
Break – Visit Vendor Booths |
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11:10-12:00 pm |
Presentation:
Bob Harvey,
Nuc Box Production
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12:00 pm |
Door Prizes |
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12:00-1:00 pm |
Break for Lunch and Visit with Vendors |
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1:00-3:00 pm |
Workshops Sessions 1 & 2 |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
General Session for Elections, Announcements |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
Workshops Session 3
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5:00 pm |
Workshops End, Break for Banquet |
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6:30 pm |
NCSBA Summer Banquet – SE NC Farmers Market |
Saturday, July 14, 2012 |
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8:00 am |
Registration |
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8:00 am |
Welcome: Ed Hunt, NCSBA 2nd VP |
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8:05-9:00 am |
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Malcolm Sanford,
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9:05-9:55 am |
Presentation: Eric
Mills, Migratory Beekeeping |
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9:55-10:10 am |
Break – Visit Vendor Booths |
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10:10-11:00 am |
Presentation: Roxanne
Alterui, Royal Jelly
Production |
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11:05-12:00 pm |
Ask the Speakers: Dr. Sanford, Dr. Ambrose, Ray Revis, Bob
Harvey, Don Hopkins, Virginia Webb, Eric Mills, and Roxanne
Alterui |
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12:00 pm |
Door Prizes
Closing Remarks: Danny Jaynes
(NCSBA President) |
Workshops include:
- Starting a Bee Business
- Bear Fences
- Fall Bee Splits
- Cooking with Honey
- Insect and Diseases
- Fall Queen Rearing
- Management of Russian Bees
- Medical Benefits of the Hive
- Lab ID of Nosema
- Honey Certification
- Reasons Why Hives Fail
- Getting Back to Basic Beekeeping
Download Full Workshops Sessions Schedule
Registration
Click Here to Register Online
or Download Advance Registration Form
Advance Registration Deadline is July 6th!
Registration Fees Individual Family Advance Registration: $20 $25 At-the-door: $30 $35 Non-members additional * $15* $15*
* pays 2012 NCSBA membership for one person.
Special Events:
- Cooking with Honey Contest - Download Guidelines
- Banquet on Friday night - $15 per person
- Honey Contest
- Door Prizes each day
- Vendor displays and sale
- Silent Auction -- Bring donations of beekeeping items or other useful things to auction. Proceeds go to the Apiculture Science Fund at NCSU Entomology/Beekeeping
- Honey Exchange - Trade your Sweet Delight for someone else's Pride and Joy. Here's how:
- Bring one, two or even three 1-pound containers of your honey (labeled according to the membership-approved honey standard) and present them at the Honey Exchange table near the Registration Desk. You can bring extracted, comb or creamed honey, so long as it’s in a 1-pound jar and you are willing to trade it for someone else’s pride and joy.
- Upon drop off, you will be given one ticket for each jar presented. The Honey Exchange jars will be on display all day Friday, July 12th.
- At the morning break, on Saturday, bring your tickets to the Honey Exchange Table and redeem them for a different jar of honey (1 jar per ticket – first come, first served).
Download Flyer for Summer Meeting
Local Weather during meeting
Average high temp for July in Lumberton: 90°F
Average low temp for July in Lumberton: 68°FTravel and Tourism
