Tentative Conference Agenda
10 am–noon Encaustic Art Workshop (Events Area | Registration Required, Limit: 30) 1:00-4:00 pm Beekeeping Basics Course (Auditorium | Registration Required/No Additional Cost, Limit: 40) 3:00 pm OSBA Executive Committee Meeting (Conference Room) 5:00–6:00 pm Submit Honey Show Entries (Green Room) 5:00–7:00 pm Registration and Submit Auction Items (Lobby) Online Silent Auction Ongoing 7:00 pm Kick-Off Wine and Cheese Social (Events Area) 7:00 am Registration (Lobby) 7:45 am Welcome & Announcements (Auditorium) General Session (Auditorium) 8:00–9:00 am Submit Honey Show Entries (Green Room) 9:00 am Wrap Up of Multiple Research Projects Testing the Efficacy of Oxalic Acid for Controlling Varroa destructor in Honey Bee Colonies 10:00 am Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 10:30 am Bee Research You Can Use: An Update of Project Apis m. Funded Research 11:15 am Pesticide Risk to Honey Bees: Does the Landscape Make the Poison? noon Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 12:15 am Luncheon (Events Area, Preregistration required) The Reintroduction of Caucasian Honey Bees to the United States 1:45 pm Research Updates from OSU: Varroa, Bee Nutrition, Impacts of Wildfires, and More 2:30 pm Nutritional Ecology of Honey Bees in a Changing Landscape 3:30 pm Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 4:00 pm What You Always Wanted to Know About Judging and Marketing Oregon’s Wonderful Honeys 4:30 pm General Membership Meeting (Auditorium) 6:00 pm Social Hour (Events Area) 7:00 pm Banquet (Events Area, Preregistration required) Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Oregon’s Weird and Wonderful Native Bees Benefit Auction to Follow (Events Area) 10:00 pm Online Silent Auction Ends 7:00 am Registration (Lobby) 7:45 am Welcome & Announcements (Auditorium) General Session (Auditorium) 9:00 am Strategies for Establishing Season-Long Native Habitat and NRCS Cost-Share Programs 9:45 am Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 10:15 am Factors that Affect the Reproductive Quality of Queens and Drones 11:15 am Multiple-Pronged Approach to Protecting Bee Health noon Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 12:15 pm Luncheon (Events Area, Preregistration required) Panel: Raising Queens and How They Fit into Beekeeper Operations 1:20 pm Honey Auction (Events Area) 1:45 pm Overwintering Queen Banks in Oregon 2:30 pm Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area) 2:45 pm Fight the Mite Thailand Edition: Understanding the Mysterious Tropilaelaps Mite 3:45 pm Final Comments & Adjourn Conference Agenda (pdf)
Friday, October 22
George Hansen, Foothills Honey Company
Dewey Caron, University of Delaware, Emeritus
Saturday, October 23
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA
8:00 am Varroa After the Fat: Current Research Endeavors to Fight the Mite
Samuel Ramsey, USDA Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, via Zoom
Jennifer Berry, University of Georgia, via Zoom
George Hansen, Foothills Honey Company
Emily Carlson, Oregon State University
Steve Sheppard, Washington State University
Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University
Juliana Rangel, Texas A&M University
Marjie Ehry, Oregon Honey Farm
Andony Melathopoulos, Oregon State University
Sunday, October 24
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA
8:00 am Crowding and Caravans: Is Industrial Beekeeping Bad for Bees?
Lewis Bartlett, University of Georgia, via Zoom
Amy Bartow, NRCS Corvallis, via Zoom
Juliana Rangel, Texas A&M University
Priya Chakrabarti Basu, Mississippi State University
Andony Melathopoulos, Oregon State University, Moderator, with Todd Balsiger, Karen Finley, Matt Hansen, and Paul Stromberg
Ellen Topitzhofer, Oregon State University
Samuel Ramsey, USDA Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, via Zoom
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA