Beekeeping Research
If you are curious about beekeeping, bees, pollination, the status of our
industry, there are some very good papers available.  If you know of any that
should be linked too, please let me know.  I would need the names of the
paper and the authors, the website where the paper can be found, and if it
costs anything to read the paper.
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Canada, C. (2004, December 3). RS20759, Report to the congress
on farm commodity programs: Honey. Retrieved April 21, 2006, from
http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RS20759.pdf
Fischer, J. (2003, September). The not so sweet story of
sweeteners: start a counter-revolution, know the enemy.
Bee Culture, 131(9), 22-31.
Food & Drug Administration (2002, November-December).
Contaminated honey imports. Retrieved December 13, 2006, from
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/departs/2002/602_upd.html#honey
General Accounting Office of the Comptroller General (1985).
GAO/RCED-85-107 Report to the Congress, Federal Price
Support for Honey Should Be Phased Out. Gaithersburg, MD:
General Accounting Office.
Harman, J. W. (1994, June 8). GAO/RCED-94-244R, Honey
Program. Retrieved April 18, 2004, from
http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat3/151824.pdf
Hoff, F. L. (1995). Agricultural Economic Report Number 708,
Honey: Background for 1995 farm legislation. Springfield, VA:
U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service,
1-800-999-6779.
Hoff, F. L., & Willett, L. S. (1994). USDA ERS AER-680, The
U.S. Beekeeping Industry. Springfield, VA: U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1-800-999-6779.
Morse, R. A., & Calderone, N. W. (2000, March). The value of
honey bees as pollinators of U.S. crops in 2000. Bee Culture,
128(3), 1-15.
Muth, M. K., Rucker, R. R., Thurman, W. N., & Chuang, C. (2001,
May 10). The fable of the bees revisited: Causes and
consequences of the U.S. honey program. Retrieved September 5, 2003,
from http://www.montana.edu/econ/rucker/bees.pdf
National Honey Board (2006). Honey Indusrty Statistics:
http://www.honey.com/honeyindustry/statistics.asp
Rucker, R. R., Thurman, W. N., & Burgett, M. (2001, May 14). An
empirical analysis of honeybee pollination markets. Retrieved
April 11, 2003, from
http://www.agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=2787&
ftype=.pdf
Schilling, A. G. (2002, March). The future of American beekeeping
- protectionism or productivity?. Bee Culture, 130(3), 20-24.
Sumner, D. A., & Boriss, H. (2006, January 14). Bee-economics and
the leap in pollination fees. Retrieved September 6, 2006, from
http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/uploads/update_articles/v9n3_3.pdf


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