Very interesting. This is what we need, research to show the benefits or the negative impacts on Honey Bees. I believe Bob Binnie speaks to the problems linked between fungicides and OAV. Good stuff Humberto. Looking forward to hearing you speak this weekend,
Good video. My antenna stand up with these types of subjects and my critical thought mechanisms kick in. I always find myself saying “ya but?”, meaning, as a farmer, give me solutions. #1, we must eat. To eat, we must afford the food because ultimately a farmer will not run his business without profits. IF society actually wants to shift, they will shift but for now society seems comfortable with affordable food in their mouths. What’s the consequence? You elude to that in your video, and it’s a real problem. The impact of man kind has a large footprint. How do we appropriately manage that footprint? As a beekeeper who runs a farm, I don’t have the luxury of sitting on a ideological or superficially faced moral fences. We must use science to not only identify the problem but work in tandem with the solutions to those problems.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog These are the conversations we have to have. I understnd your concerns very well. I don't have an answer myself. Only talking will allow us to find new ways. Perhaps it is time for us to have that livestream scheduled. When would be a good time?
! Anytime that suits you, I’m just a complaining farmer, I don’t have much insight other than applied practical understanding of the basics of work lol
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog would you join me on the livestream with the author on March 30? We were trying to find a farmer to join the conversation. Or we can schedule something else you and I only later.
Great video Humberto. I love learning from scientists and beekeepers around the world. And about our precious little bee girls 🐝. They give us so much we owe them their wellbeing and we're NOT even close yet. The good news is that with researchers like you they have a better chance. Big hug from Silvana from South America 🇺🇾
My bees pollinate low bush blueberry. I rented 240 colonies last year to 7 different growers. 10% of my colonies showed EFB while out to pollination. There is a new strain of EFB, and I had the first confirmed reported case in Nove Scotia. The farmers will divide the field in half, one year one half will sprout and the other half harvest. This allows a harvest in that field every year. My point is that not all farmers divide their fields in half. The EFB is showing up in hives that are on divided fields and not found in hives that are on fields that are only blossoming that year. (No sprout fields near by.) That finding would suggest the chemicals used on the sprout field are causing the EFB, which is interesting because the bees have no reason to go on a sprout field without blossoms. Maybe drift or over spray. Private laboratory testing has found those chemicals used on sprout fields in the effected EFB hives. Could you forward this message to your guest speaker on March 30th. I would also expect the chemicals used on a sprout field were probably not tested on a honey bees in development of the pesticide because the scientists would not expect honey bees to be working near a sprout field with no blossoms.
I'm curious why a farmer would spray all 4? Is there a benefit to the crops or is it the case where they spray what ever is on sale at the moment? I'm lucky since the farms around me don't spray much at all and will rotate their fields through 6 different crops in a year including a fallow phase. Nothing is around long enough for any particular critter or pathogen to really get a foot hold to be significant. They don't plant crimson clover any more though. Those fields looked amazing when it's in bloom.
Wow sounds absolutely positive for the chemical companies, almost to the point of this guy being on their payroll. pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, how do they synergize? are the chemical companies gonna step up to the plate and buy our fruits, nuts, veggies, and oils for us when all of our bees are dead from their chemicals?
The best thing is to change our way of planting. With the Syntropic Agroforest taught by Enerst Gosh, you don't need pesticides. Everything works in harmony. And in the end, excellent quality food is produced. And the planet regenerates.
Hasn't it always been the case, were arable farmers of grain or fruit farmers are always needing some product to control decease. But these products aren't taking in the full effects off the chemical's being produced, or are some of the deceases being brought about by highbred seeds being invented by science.
No, it hasn't always been the case. Farmers used to plant a different crop in each field every year, rotating different crops and livestock so that the fungi, bacteria, viruses and any other pests which depended on them had time to die off before that field was used for the same crop again - not completely, but enough that it wasn't a problem. Then in the early to mid-20th century came factory farming, with a division between raising stock and crops, and the same crop planted year after year, sustained by artificial fertilizers, herbicides to kill weeds, insecticides to kill insect pests, fungicides to kill fungi and all the other ingredients of the huge chemistry experiment. Well, guess what - it isn't working. It is high time we got back to rotational crop planting, to keep the pests at manageable levels and the soil healthy, instead of being sterile dirt which provides nothing more for the plant than physical support - the life has been sucked out of it. All the good bacteria that broke down natural organic fertilisers and plant residues are now dead, ad a huge risk is posed to anything natural which is expected to work those fields - like honeybees. At the same time, the stock is kept in obscene conditions and their waste is a health hazard, instead of being a benefit when they used to be grazed on the residue after harvest, or even having a part in the annual rotation, with a fodder crop. And it is so bad that it has reversed the language, so factory farming is now referred to as "traditional" and the REAL traditional organic methods are regarded as a fringe. I'm never surprised by a failure in the chemistry experiment that has killed off soil which took generations of family farming to put "in good heart" and was the greatest asset a farmer could pass on to his heirs. It takes maybe a century to really get the health back into the soil, although a start that can maintain a reasonable crop can be made in a decade or so.
Odviously prior to the chemist's getting involved in farming this wasn't the case. I'm involved in sheep farming, everything is organic. When they clear one field there moved to the next, no fertilizer for the grass manure only. We've been introduced clover and meadow grass to help with bees. Hedgerows are only trimmed in winter so brambles and plants grow naturally. I'm worried about custom seed coated in different chemicals to allegedly produce more crop's and protect against insects.
Very interesting. This is what we need, research to show the benefits or the negative impacts on Honey Bees. I believe Bob Binnie speaks to the problems linked between fungicides and OAV. Good stuff Humberto. Looking forward to hearing you speak this weekend,
I'm going to have to watch that video again
It’s not simple. Let me know your questions.
Good video. My antenna stand up with these types of subjects and my critical thought mechanisms kick in. I always find myself saying “ya but?”, meaning, as a farmer, give me solutions. #1, we must eat. To eat, we must afford the food because ultimately a farmer will not run his business without profits. IF society actually wants to shift, they will shift but for now society seems comfortable with affordable food in their mouths. What’s the consequence? You elude to that in your video, and it’s a real problem. The impact of man kind has a large footprint. How do we appropriately manage that footprint?
As a beekeeper who runs a farm, I don’t have the luxury of sitting on a ideological or superficially faced moral fences. We must use science to not only identify the problem but work in tandem with the solutions to those problems.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog These are the conversations we have to have. I understnd your concerns very well. I don't have an answer myself. Only talking will allow us to find new ways. Perhaps it is time for us to have that livestream scheduled. When would be a good time?
! Anytime that suits you,
I’m just a complaining farmer, I don’t have much insight other than applied practical understanding of the basics of work lol
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog would you join me on the livestream with the author on March 30? We were trying to find a farmer to join the conversation. Or we can schedule something else you and I only later.
Great video Humberto. I love learning from scientists and beekeepers around the world. And about our precious little bee girls 🐝. They give us so much we owe them their wellbeing and we're NOT even close yet. The good news is that with researchers like you they have a better chance. Big hug from Silvana from South America 🇺🇾
Thanks Silvana, Very nice of you.
@@InsideTheHiveTV It's the truth Humberto. Thank YOU for all your hard work. 🐝🇺🇾
Great video and thanks for explaining this complicated topic!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My bees pollinate low bush blueberry. I rented 240 colonies last year to 7 different growers. 10% of my colonies showed EFB while out to pollination. There is a new strain of EFB, and I had the first confirmed reported case in Nove Scotia. The farmers will divide the field in half, one year one half will sprout and the other half harvest. This allows a harvest in that field every year. My point is that not all farmers divide their fields in half. The EFB is showing up in hives that are on divided fields and not found in hives that are on fields that are only blossoming that year. (No sprout fields near by.) That finding would suggest the chemicals used on the sprout field are causing the EFB, which is interesting because the bees have no reason to go on a sprout field without blossoms. Maybe drift or over spray. Private laboratory testing has found those chemicals used on sprout fields in the effected EFB hives. Could you forward this message to your guest speaker on March 30th. I would also expect the chemicals used on a sprout field were probably not tested on a honey bees in development of the pesticide because the scientists would not expect honey bees to be working near a sprout field with no blossoms.
I will ask the author. Thanks that’s is very helpful to add to the discussion.
I'm curious why a farmer would spray all 4? Is there a benefit to the crops or is it the case where they spray what ever is on sale at the moment? I'm lucky since the farms around me don't spray much at all and will rotate their fields through 6 different crops in a year including a fallow phase. Nothing is around long enough for any particular critter or pathogen to really get a foot hold to be significant. They don't plant crimson clover any more though. Those fields looked amazing when it's in bloom.
Wow sounds absolutely positive for the chemical companies, almost to the point of this guy being on their payroll.
pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, how do they synergize? are the chemical companies gonna step up to the plate and buy our fruits, nuts, veggies, and oils for us when all of our bees are dead from their chemicals?
The best thing is to change our way of planting. With the Syntropic Agroforest taught by Enerst Gosh, you don't need pesticides. Everything works in harmony. And in the end, excellent quality food is produced. And the planet regenerates.
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about ir. Very interesting and worth sharing.
Hasn't it always been the case, were arable farmers of grain or fruit farmers are always needing some product to control decease.
But these products aren't taking in the full effects off the chemical's being produced, or are some of the deceases being brought about by highbred seeds being invented by science.
No, it hasn't always been the case.
Farmers used to plant a different crop in each field every year, rotating different crops and livestock so that the fungi, bacteria, viruses and any other pests which depended on them had time to die off before that field was used for the same crop again - not completely, but enough that it wasn't a problem.
Then in the early to mid-20th century came factory farming, with a division between raising stock and crops, and the same crop planted year after year, sustained by artificial fertilizers, herbicides to kill weeds, insecticides to kill insect pests, fungicides to kill fungi and all the other ingredients of the huge chemistry experiment. Well, guess what - it isn't working. It is high time we got back to rotational crop planting, to keep the pests at manageable levels and the soil healthy, instead of being sterile dirt which provides nothing more for the plant than physical support - the life has been sucked out of it. All the good bacteria that broke down natural organic fertilisers and plant residues are now dead, ad a huge risk is posed to anything natural which is expected to work those fields - like honeybees. At the same time, the stock is kept in obscene conditions and their waste is a health hazard, instead of being a benefit when they used to be grazed on the residue after harvest, or even having a part in the annual rotation, with a fodder crop.
And it is so bad that it has reversed the language, so factory farming is now referred to as "traditional" and the REAL traditional organic methods are regarded as a fringe.
I'm never surprised by a failure in the chemistry experiment that has killed off soil which took generations of family farming to put "in good heart" and was the greatest asset a farmer could pass on to his heirs. It takes maybe a century to really get the health back into the soil, although a start that can maintain a reasonable crop can be made in a decade or so.
Odviously prior to the chemist's getting involved in farming this wasn't the case. I'm involved in sheep farming, everything is organic. When they clear one field there moved to the next, no fertilizer for the grass manure only. We've been introduced clover and meadow grass to help with bees. Hedgerows are only trimmed in winter so brambles and plants grow naturally.
I'm worried about custom seed coated in different chemicals to allegedly produce more crop's and protect against insects.