Are you interested in furthering your education? Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program makes its debut in Missouri! By Gregg Hitchings - msbagregg@gmail.com Another chapter in Missouri beekeeping was opened at MSBA’s October 18-19, 2019 fall conference in Moberly. Sheldon Brummel, … [Read more...]
Missouri Leads Nation
Missouri leads the nation with a concerted effort to increase monarch habitat, according to Brent Vandeloecht, Mo. Dept of Conservation and the Chairman for the Collaborative Working Group within Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative chairman. Monarch population numbers have decreased 90% in … [Read more...]
TED Talk – Why Bugs Matter
Our own Charlotte Wiggins presents a TEDx Talk on why bugs matter... Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is a lifelong gardener, but it was not until she started to keep honeybees in her garden that she began to understand the scope of the pollinators, down to honeybees providing 1/3 of the world’s food … [Read more...]
…Wins National Award!
The National Association of County Agricultural Agents has awarded Missouri’s Master Pollinator Steward Program with a National Search for Excellence Award for Environmental Quality. The Environmental Quality award recognizes the development and implementation of an outstanding extension … [Read more...]
Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program
Missouri State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) is now working with the Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program out of University of Nebraska at Lincoln to bring resources as well as classes to Missouri beekeepers. Started under the direction of Dr. Judy Wu-Smart, assistant professor and extension … [Read more...]
