http://honeyrunapiaries.com/blog/osu-rejects-funding-for-beekeeping-research-penn-state-and-uc-davis-receive-250000/118 A beekeepers journal, thoughts and random rants. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://honeyrunapiaries.com/blog/osu-rejects-funding-for-beekeeping-research-penn-state-and-uc-davis-receive-250000/118#comment-11529 mark Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:22:21 +0000 http://honeyrunapiaries.com/blog/osu-rejects-funding-for-beekeeping-research-penn-state-and-uc-davis-receive-250000/118#comment-11529 if some place doesn't have an existing program up and running, $250, 000 would be a drop in the bucket to fund a research project considering you have to outfit new space, buy new equipment, bees, tools, pay salaries, etc. so giving money to existing programs just makes sense. unfotunately, many institutions have dropped their bee programs. i see that iowa state university has done that and it is a land grant facility also. they still have horticulture and entymolgy programs there but evidently they don't feel bees are of much importance anymore. but what goes around, comes around and hopefully before the honey bee becomes extinct, they'll realize it truly was beneficial and quit putting so much emphasis on chemicals. if some place doesn’t have an existing program up and running, $250, 000 would be a drop in the bucket to fund a research project considering you have to outfit new space, buy new equipment, bees, tools, pay salaries, etc. so giving money to existing programs just makes sense. unfotunately, many institutions have dropped their bee programs. i see that iowa state university has done that and it is a land grant facility also. they still have horticulture and entymolgy programs there but evidently they don’t feel bees are of much importance anymore. but what goes around, comes around and hopefully before the honey bee becomes extinct, they’ll realize it truly was beneficial and quit putting so much emphasis on chemicals.

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