Brent Nixon is a queen breeder from Australia who also runs his own beekeeping podcast where he interviews beekeepers from all around the world!

Check out Brent's beekeeping podcast: "Breeding the Honeybee"

 https://open.spotify.com/show/5c7bevh7Vzn22TK4HYfELs?si=2e9ddd36d13b4e4d

and his website: https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

For the 1-year anniversary episode of The Pollen Nation Podcast I'll be interviewing Bracken Barker of Barker's Bees & Honey from northern Utah.

Barkers Bees & Honey - YouTube

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In Episode 16 I'll be going into detail over what the income and expenses would be to start up a 400 hive commercial apiary from scratch and run it for one year!

In episode 15 I'll be comparing the pros and cons of feeding honeybees both cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup!

Study:

Comparison of productivity of colonies of honey bees, Apis mellifera, supplemented with sucrose or high fructose corn syrup | Journal of Insect Science | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

In episode 14 I'll be sharing my experience with starting Queen production as early as January and the pitfalls of Queen rearing too early.

In today's episode I'll be interviewing a well-known and respected beekeeper in our community. Buddy Rich owns Buddy's Bee Farm in Altha, Florida. Buddy shares his story of how he became a beekeeper and some of the fascinating things that he's seen honeybees do over the years.

In today's episode I'll be going over a 2018 study analyzing whether a Queen bee's brood pattern is a good indicator of her quality as well as sharing my own experiences.

In episode 11 I'll be comparing the pros and cons of raising mated queens in mini styrofoam nucs versus 5 frame nucs!

In today's episode I'll be breaking down a great study that measures the acceptance rate of mated queens depending on the age the queens are caged.

I'll also be going over when we cage and bank our queens and some tips to increase mated queen acceptance.

In this episode I'll be covering grafting and three different types of cell building hives to raise your own Queen cells.