Excerpts from:
American Bee Research Conference
Originally published in The Speedy Bee, March, April, June 1998
(Vols. 3, Nos. 3,4,6)

>Sponsored by the American Association of Professional Apiculturists,
>the ABRC has become an important way for scientists to exchange
>information among themselves, and at the same time, share their
>results with the beekeeping community.
>
>the majority of ABRC presentations were applied in nature
>
>-- --  and -- -- shared their views on the pressures that
>researchers face. These boil down to two major issues. Researchers
>get little credit at their institutions for publishing in lay
>journals. Money runs the research establishment; big grants are
>funded by national institutions in basic research. Those trying to
>do applied research face extremely limited budgets and little
>support from colleagues.
>
>-- --  in his opening statement said that research does not help
>commercial beekeepers. In addition, he concluded that information on
>pollination is not up to date and was necessary in these times when
>many beekeepers were going out of business.

Here is a respected commercial beekeeper saying point blank:
"research does not help commercial beekeepers". I have heard this
many times.


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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>