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Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Beekeepers Pollinating Agricultural Crops

Learn the best management practices for beekeepers to run a successful and efficient beekeeping business. Topics include professional interactions, setting realistic pollination fees, maintaining good records, using quality equipment, continuous learning, and giving back to the beekeeping community.

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Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Beekeepers Pollinating Agricultural Crops

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  1. Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Beekeepers Pollinating Agricultural Crops elearning modules

  2. Module 6: Best Management Practices For Business Management

  3. Beekeeping is an evolving profession. Beekeeping today is a challenging business.

  4. We can start by understanding this simple concept: Be professional in your beekeeper/grower interactions. Let’s get more specific!

  5. Interactions Use a Contract (See a Sample Pollination Contract at http://www.ProjectApism.org under ‘Downloads’).

  6. Interactions I think we should set our pollination fees according to what we perceive to be the highest going rate out there, right? Well, not exactly. Determine pollination fees that are realistic to your operating costs.

  7. Interactions • Be dependable with the timing of • hive drops and pick-ups. • Be visible to your growers. Honey, I hope I made a good impression!

  8. Next, there are some well-known methods to being more efficient in your business management style. Let’s discover what they are!

  9. Efficiency Streamline your business to manage resources wisely. What if things don’t happen as you planned? Things do go wrong, often out of our hands. What do we have control over?

  10. Efficiency Be prepared by developing contingency plans for the unexpected. As they say, “expect the unexpected”. These plans are not possible without the keeping of good records. How else can we improve practices in order to be more efficient? Clue: Look in your apiary, what do you see?

  11. Efficiency Use quality, well-maintained equipment. Improve practices by being aware and on top of everything that is occurring in your operation. Segue: Knowledge is power!

  12. Learn something new everyday!

  13. Keep Learning Successful beekeeping is a rapidly changing art and science! How do we stay informed of, and enlightened in, new cutting edge ideas and concepts in this growing field?

  14. Keep Learning • Join local, state, regional and national • organizations (Bee of course). • Attend local, state, regional and • national conferences, as well.

  15. Keep Learning Access the internet, watch for reliable sources of information. Regularly check the CAP project website for new information at http://www.beeccdcap.uga.edu/index.html

  16. Keep Learning Subscribe to bee journals. Maybe even read a contemporary book! How can we share this knowledge and help others to keep learning?

  17. Give Back Beekeeping needs ideas and leadership to build a prosperous future. So, get involved, spread the word, help others understand what you know and have experienced; more to the point…….

  18. Give Back • Mentor new and young beekeepers. • Support and contribute to bee research • to ensure a sustainable pollination industry.

  19. Thanks for your attention! www.ProjectApism.org Any questions? Want more information? Email ProjectApis@gmail.com Visit www.ProjectApism.org

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