Advocacy Episodes

Recorded live in Fargo, Randy Oliver, Dr. Izzy Hill, and Dr. Brandon Hopkins join Jeff and Becky to discuss the future of beekeeping. The panel explores honey prices, pollination economics, regenerative agriculture, declining forage, honey authenticity, new honey bee health products, government policy, research, and what it will take to attract another generation of beekeepers. The conversation ultimately asks a bigger question: How do we protect not only honey bee colonies, but the people and agricultural systems that make beekeeping possible?

In this week’s episode, Jeff and Becky welcome back fourth-generation commercial beekeeper John Miller for a candid conversation about the challenges—and potential—facing the beekeeping industry today. With his decades of experience and generational insight, John doesn’t hold back on concerns about low honey prices, rising input costs, invasive pests like tropilaelaps, and the closure of critical research facilities like USDA’s Beltsville Bee Lab. John offers a front-line view of what it mean...

There are two organizations shaping the American beekeeping industry: the American Beekeeping Federation (ABF) and the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA). On today’s episode, we talk with Dan Winter, President of the American Beekeeping...