This afternoon the Scottish Government arranged a training and discussion afternoon for the bee farmers in Scotland. If any have stumbled across this site as a result of my shameless promotion of it, welcome! I had in mind that we'd use this part of the forum for those who already make part or all of their income from bees.

The main point of the afternoon was to discuss bee health issues in general, and also to go through the plans for EFB-infected operations in 2010.

There was also a brief discussion of the Food Standards Agency Scotland's consultation on testing for residues following last year's application of oxytetracycline to colonies at risk from EFB. There is a link to today's news release on our Home page.