Agriculture committee  As far as I'm concerned, no. We're very similar.

Agriculture committee  Am I wrong in stating that we're accepting packages from Ukraine?

Agriculture committee  To be honest, we're all about anything that wants to pollinate wild blueberries. I was in a blueberry field with the tech team from Nova Scotia, and it was a rainy day. It was pouring rain. I had them there and I wanted to show them what strong hives look like during pollination,

Agriculture committee  As far as trying to get more bees to blueberries is concerned, I'd love to be able to truck 50 semi-trailer loads of bees from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Nova Scotia, and then get them back in time for honey crop season, but we'd have to figure that out.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it was to slow the spread. Surprisingly, in Nova Scotia, it was never actually determined, but it was believed that a hobbyist brought two hives into the metro area. They got them from New Brunswick, brought them in and plunked them down, and the first positive varroa mites

Agriculture committee  Droughts reduce the swelling of the berries, so a drought would make it a smaller blueberry crop. When you're in a drought, there's no nectar for your bees, so it would mean that we would have to feed them more. However, we are proactive with our bees and with our growth in tryin

Agriculture committee  I've had hives go down the creek.

Agriculture committee  We had our own correction a few years back, and you just can't let your guard down. You have to make sure that you have your mite treatments and that the mite treatments are working. You have to have the feed in the hives early. You have to be prepared for a wet fall, when they d

Agriculture committee  It is, very much so.

Agriculture committee  Yes. During blueberry harvest, they're moving berries. Sometimes they're passing each other. They're moving berries in every direction.

Agriculture committee  I am familiar with the leafcutter bees, yes.

Agriculture committee  North of where I grew up, towards Carrot River, Saskatchewan, there are big leafcutter areas. They pollinate alfalfa tremendously and there have been numerous attempts to use them to pollinate wild blueberries. It doesn't work. They are very easily affected by wind. If you have

Agriculture committee  To start with, right off the top of my head, we're planting a mustard crop. It's in a rotation. We have a large carrot farm in the Annapolis Valley, and we plant mustard because, first of all, it's a great nectar source for our bees, and the roots are actually good at suppressing

Agriculture committee  It's not going to be good.

Agriculture committee  The load would perish. The whole load of hives—400, 432, 530, or whatever's on the load—would cook, because they're netted in, right? The whole load would be netted.