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2023 Spring Meeting

Union County Agricultural Center*, 3230-D Presson Rd, Monroe, NC 28112 • March 10-11

Hosted by Union County Cooperative Extension and the Union County Beekeepers

Please join us as Union County Cooperative Extension and the Union County Beekeepers host the 2023 NCSBA Spring Meeting. This conference promises not to disappoint and offers nationally renowned experts & researchers Kamon Reynolds, Cory Stevens & Morgan Roth, Ph.D.

Onsite Registration Rates:

Current NCSBA Members:
Individual: $65
Family: $100

Non-Members:
Individual: $80
Family: $115*

*Includes NCSBA 2023 annual membership for primary registrant.
Advance registration has ended. Onsite registration begins each day at 8:30am.

Speakers

Kamon Reynolds

Kamon ReynoldsKamon Reynolds is the co-founder of one of North America’s largest bee conferences, Hive Live , is the founder of Tennessee’s Bees and has been keeping bees in North Central Tennessee for 20 years.

Kamon keeps 300 hives with his wife Laurel. Kamon and Laurel also have filmed hundreds of educational videos to help new and veteran beekeepers around the world keep their bees successfully. Though Kamon does 99% of the talking, Laurel has been Beekeeping for 16 years and is an invaluable part of their Business Tennessee’s Bees LLC. Tennessee’s Bees specializes in quality Bee Genetics, Pure Tennessee Honey, and Honeybee Education. Their videos can be found on YouTube.

Kamon currently has 50,000+ beekeepers that follow him on YouTube.

Cory Stevens, Stevens Bee Company

Cory StevensCory Stevens comes to us from his 27 acre farm in Bloomfield, MO, which he manages for wildlife and pollinator habitat. Cory and his wife Jaime own Stevens Bee Company where they select for mite resistant VSH stock. Cory is a Past President of Missouri State Beekeepers Association, and earned a MS in entomology from University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He was certified as a Master Beekeeper by EAS in 2013, and trained by Sue Cobey in 2014 to instrumentally inseminate queen bees. He slips bees into random conversation with strangers, and annoys his wife by constantly talking about bees.

Morgan Roth, Ph.D., Liberty University

Morgan RothMorgan Roth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology & Chemistry at Liberty University

After completing my B.S. in zoology, Morgan started working for Dr. Aaron Gross as a research assistant and M.S. student at Virginia Tech in 2017. Throughout her M.S. program, she studied varroa mite acaricide resistance in VA and tested several known and novel acaricides against small hive beetle larvae and honey bees. After completing an M.S. degree, Morgan continued to research small hive beetle physiology and behavior as part of a Ph.D. research at Virginia Tech. The Ph.D. research included testing small hive beetle antennal responses to a series of attractant and repellent compounds and contrasting these responses with an behavioral test performed on small hive beetles using olfactometry experiments. Throughout this work, Morgan was able to discover which repellents were most effective against small hive beetles and found that some repellents could obscure responses to attractants in behavioral testing. After graduating with a Ph.D. this past spring, Morgan began working as an assistant professor at Liberty University, where she is currently working to establish an apiary, both for teaching beekeeping to students and continuing her work with honey bee pests. Morgan’s hope is that her research can one day be applied in apiary settings in the form of safe and effective repellents, which could help prevent small hive beetles from discovering and entering apiaries.

Schedule

The final schedule is available here.

Highlights to note are:

  • Master Beekeeper Program testing for all levels Saturday morning Saturday, March 11. You must be registered for the conference to attend.
  • Black Jar Honey Contest. See contest rules and regulations on the website. The deadline for submitting entries is Noon, Friday March 10.
  • Silent auction hosted by the Chatham County Beekeepers. The net proceeds to be donated to the fund for the endowed professorship in apiculture at NCSU. More information available here.
  • Honey Judging workshop Thursday, March 9. A separate fee and registration are required. Details and registration information available here.

Food:

Breakfast/Morning Coffee: Food Truck available until 10am.
Concessions provided by Union County Beekeepers during breakouts.
Friday Lunch: Open
Saturday Lunch: Catered by The Smoke Pit. Tickets must be purchased in advance with registration. BBQ or Vegetarian option available.

Hotel/Lodging

Quality Inn & Suites • 704-283-9600
2351 West Roosevelt Blvd.
Monroe, NC 28110
Call to book: mention NCSBA rate
$80 (K), $86 (Q) + tax
Deadline to book: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Fairfield Inn & Suites • 980-290-2190
1825 Williams Rd
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation link, no code needed
$119 (K, Q) + tax
Deadline to book: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Hampton Inn Charlotte/Monroe
704-220-2200
2368 Roland Dr.
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation link, use code BEE
$119 (K) / $129 (Q) + tax
Deadline to book: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Best Western Inn & Suites
704-283-4746
2316 Hanover Dr
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation Link,  no code needed
$109 (K,Q, QS) / $129 (SK, SQ) + tax
Deadline to book: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
704-774-1779
2505 W Roosevelt Blvd
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation link, use code BEE
$125 (K,Q) / $149 (SKS, SQS)
Deadline to book: Thursday, February 16, 2023

Relax Inn
704-289-4581
611
W Roosevelt Blvd
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation Link, no discount
$65 (K) / $68 (Q) + tax

Super 8 Monroe
704-774-8719
350 Venus Street
Monroe, NC 28110
Reservation Link, no discount
$60 (K) / $73 (Q) + tax
 
*N.C. Cooperative Extension prohibits discrimination and harassment regardless of age, color, disability, family and marital status, gender identity, national origin, political beliefs, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation and veteran status. NC State University, N.C. A&T State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture and local governments cooperating
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by February 17, 2023 to Aaron Moore, 704-283-3743 or aaron_moore@ncsu.edu

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