The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Honey Bee Products will provide a much-needed boost to Australia’s valuable, but largely untapped, honey bee industry by bringing together industry and research expertise from across Australia. Established in 2017, the five-year CRC aims to resolve current industry problems that limit the value and expansion of the industry. At …
Australian government funding totalling $7million will underwrite a new ‘Honey Bee Products’ research centre led by the University of Western Australia. To be spent over the next five years, the funding is being matched by a further $19.2million in cash and kind from other universities and from private sector organisations including Capilano. Dr Liz Barbour …
Science Communication student Tamara Pinkerton chats with Dr Liz Barbour in this 4 minute podcast, about the buzz of excitement around the new Collaborative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products in Yanchep, Western Australia. Stay tuned in 2018 for an upcoming series of podcasts with the researchers from the Centre to find out more about …
There are significant plans for the development of Manuka Honey in the Peel and South West of Western Australia, and it is intended that this area will become a global center of excellence for the development of premium quality Manuka honey for medicinal pharmaceutical and premium food industries. This is the vision of Western …
The CRC for Honey Bee Products Limited now exists as a company as of 1st July. We are honoured to have a board that includes three independent board members, Mr Paul McKenzie, Ms Margie Thomas and Mr Tony Cull supported by participant board members, Dr Ben McKee and Mr Gin Wah Ang that bring a …
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The CRC’s CEO Liz Barbour talks to Parwinder Kaur and Armin Patrick Scheben from The Scope about the science behind the bee industry and the CRC’s role in increasing the value of honey products in Australia.
A world without bees would be missing many fruits, vegetables and nuts—not to mention honey. Colony collapse disorder has wreaked havoc on bee populations around the world. This is a serious problem where bees set out to gather pollen but never make it back to the hive. Small but important, bees help pollinate one-third of …
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The marketing of Manuka honey has been so successful that its price has soared. Counterfeit products are rife! When you pick up a jar of honey, you think ‘Bees’! But you should also be thinking… which plants have these bees been feeding on? Why, I hear you ask? Because every jar of honey is vastly …
THERE will be an opportunity for a new generation of beekeepers to get training when a co-operative research centre for honey bee products opens in Yanchep. The co-operative research centre to be housed at the Innovation Hub on the corner of Yanchep Beach Rd and Welwyn Ave wants the number of professional beekeepers to double …
