Join WHPA on June 11th at O’so Brewing Company in Plover, WI Join beekeepers on June 10 at 6:30pm for a summer social at O’so Brewing Company for an evening of bees & beer! Guest speakers from Univ. MN Bee Lab, WI Honey Queen Shannon Lamb, beekeeping...
The WI State Fair Honey Booth Needs Volunteers August 4-14! The Wisconsin State Fair is the WHPA’s only fundraiser of the year. The WHPA Honey Booth is a State Fair anchor in the Wisconsin Products Pavilion. Beekeepers from across Wisconsin educate and promote honey...
To combat colony losses and apiary damage from bears visiting a beeyard, the WHPA has launched a Bear Loss Report Form where beekeepers can enter their colony losses resulting from nuisance bears. Enter your apiary damage from a bear HERE
The Wisconsin Honey Producers Association is proud to announce that Shannon Lamb of Dane, Wisconsin was selected as the 2022 Wisconsin Honey Queen. Shannon is the daughter of Sandra Helt of Dane, Wisconsin. She is a May 2021 graduate of the University of Wisconsin –...
On November 6, 2021 Doug Hauke was honored as WHPA’s 2021 Beekeeper of the Year at the annual Fall Convention in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. As a boy, Doug wanted nothing to do with the bees on his father’s dairy farm. He headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
The 2021 Pioneer Award winners, Tim & Lois Fulton have been beekeepers for over 25 years. They are a small-scale honey producer specializing in local, seasonal raw honey, creamed honey, beeswax candles, beeswax wood sealer and conditioner, and propolis. They can...
