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Western Australia is close to paradise for honey bees: flowers are available all year round; temperatures are warm enough for workers to fly on most days; there is no Varroa mite and honey yields, at up to 200kg a hive per year, are amongst the highest in the world. Despite this the honey industry is …

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KnowHow magazine will showcase the Australia’s Cooperative Research Centres and will be available at the CRC Association conference ‘Collaborate | Innovate | 2019’. The conference will be held in Adelaide from 28-30 May at Adelaide Hilton.

WA Honey Research Extension was presented by the ChemCentre and included CRCHBP collaborative research projects with the ChemCentre, BICWA, Curtin University, WA Farmers and WA State Government agencies.

Projects within each Program within the CRCHBP were presented at the 2018 BICWA conference to the biggest turnout for this conference yet. Well done to BICWA!

Despite the weather (tents nearly blown away), the public interest in the Honey bee industry was over whelming. CRCHBP played a small role in telling the public about the research happening across Australia. If you ever visit Perth, please go to Yagun Square and enjoy two new business ‘Honey I’m Home’ and ‘The Honey Cake’.