It appears that a lot will be going on shortly that will have huge effects upon our industry in the future both here in the US and abroad concerning our beekeeping industry. All is to be settled and in place not later than August 2002, but it is not going to be easy getting there and many will not like the results.

It is one thing to talk in debate and another to put rules on paper to govern peoples lives and economic well being. The process is already in motion and cannot be stopped. Much has happened since the organic movement started in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Complicating things have been the predication of mites and worsening of secondary diseases within our beekeeping industry.

It is only proper to give information here that will effect everyones livehood and/or hobby/interests. The subject matter is gong down and our industry is splitting into generic honey and organic honey producers, like it or not! Just like there are classes and grades of meat and produce, in the future there will be grades and classes of honey from a health standpoint of being either within residue tolerance or residue free, modified pure by filtering (for lack of other words) or organic and its whole naturally occurring state.