Friday, October 22

10 am–noon Encaustic Art Workshop (Events Area | Registration Required, Limit: 30)
George Hansen, Foothills Honey Company

1:00-4:00 pm Beekeeping Basics Course (Auditorium | Registration Required/No Additional Cost, Limit: 40)
Dewey Caron, University of Delaware, Emeritus

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)

  Saturday, October 23

7:00 am Registration (Lobby)

7:45 am Welcome & Announcements (Auditorium)
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA

General Session (Auditorium)
8:00 am Varroa After the Fat: Current Research Endeavors to Fight the Mite
Samuel Ramsey, USDA Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, via Zoom

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
Jennifer Berry, University of Georgia, via Zoom

10:00 am Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

10:30 am Bee Research You Can Use: An Update of Project Apis m. Funded Research
George Hansen, Foothills Honey Company

11:15 am Pesticide Risk to Honey Bees: Does the Landscape Make the Poison?
Emily Carlson, Oregon State University

noon Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

12:15 am Luncheon (Events Area, Preregistration required)

The Reintroduction of Caucasian Honey Bees to the United States
Steve Sheppard, Washington State University

1:45 pm Research Updates from OSU: Varroa, Bee Nutrition, Impacts of Wildfires, and More
Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University

2:30 pm Nutritional Ecology of Honey Bees in a Changing Landscape
Juliana Rangel, Texas A&M University

3:30 pm Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

4:00 pm What You Always Wanted to Know About Judging and Marketing Oregon’s Wonderful Honeys
Marjie Ehry, Oregon Honey Farm

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
Andony Melathopoulos, Oregon State University

Benefit Auction to Follow (Events Area)

10:00 pm Online Silent Auction Ends

  Sunday, October 24

7:00 am Registration (Lobby)

7:45 am Welcome & Announcements (Auditorium)
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA

General Session (Auditorium)
8:00 am Crowding and Caravans: Is Industrial Beekeeping Bad for Bees?
Lewis Bartlett, University of Georgia, via Zoom

9:00 am Strategies for Establishing Season-Long Native Habitat and NRCS Cost-Share Programs
Amy Bartow, NRCS Corvallis, via Zoom

9:45 am Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

10:15 am Factors that Affect the Reproductive Quality of Queens and Drones
Juliana Rangel, Texas A&M University

11:15 am Multiple-Pronged Approach to Protecting Bee Health
Priya Chakrabarti Basu, Mississippi State University

noon Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

12:15 pm Luncheon (Events Area, Preregistration required)

Panel: Raising Queens and How They Fit into Beekeeper Operations
Andony Melathopoulos, Oregon State University, Moderator, with Todd Balsiger, Karen Finley, Matt Hansen, and Paul Stromberg

1:20 pm Honey Auction (Events Area)

1:45 pm Overwintering Queen Banks in Oregon
Ellen Topitzhofer, Oregon State University

2:30 pm Break (Lobby | Exhibitor Area)

2:45 pm Fight the Mite Thailand Edition: Understanding the Mysterious Tropilaelaps Mite
Samuel Ramsey, USDA Bee Research Lab, Beltsville, via Zoom

3:45 pm Final Comments & Adjourn
John Jacob or Joe Maresh, OSBA

 Conference Agenda (pdf)