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Patrick Dawkins
Feb 13 min read
Mānuka Honey Founders Reinforce the Need for Higher Standards
Two beekeepers who were among the group of six who first sat around a table and coined the association that is now UMF share their thoughts


Patrick Dawkins
Jan 33 min read
What is Mānuka Charitable Trust’s Role in the Industry Restructure?
Mānuka Charitable Trust has been called the “national guardian” of mānuka. So, what role have they been playing in industry restructuring...


Phil Caskey
Dec 2, 202410 min read
Mānuka Honey: What Went Wrong? And a Road to Recovery
Mānuka honey pioneer Phil Caskey shares his vision for a better UMF™ brand and a better mānuka honey industry...


Patrick Dawkins
Dec 2, 20243 min read
A Hot Topic – UMF Honey Standards
A recent survey of UMF™ branded mānuka honey in China and Singapore by UMFHA returned what has been described as “an alarming number of...

Bruce Roscoe
Dec 2, 20245 min read
Learn From Chocolate, So Honey Doesn't Have to Take the Heat
Based on the experience of long hot Tokyo days and nights, Bruce Roscoe outlines the measures traders and distributors can take to protect..


Campbell Naish
Nov 1, 20242 min read
UMFHA Celebrates NZ Mānuka Honey Day
UMFHA explain their promotional concept "New Zealand Mānuka Honey Day", celebrated November 4...


Patrick Dawkins
Oct 3, 202411 min read
A Honey Industry in the Dark
Looming over a seriously depressed mānuka honey market is what has variously been described as a honey “oversupply’, “stockpile, “surplus”.


Bruce Roscoe
Oct 3, 202410 min read
The Honey in the Sheds, and the Sword of Damocles
While the New Zealand Honey industry bandies about vast ranges for potential honey inventory volumes, Bruce Roscoe explores how...


Patrick Dawkins
Oct 3, 20245 min read
Comvita’s Freeze Out Hits Honey Suppliers Hard
Where Comvita goes, many beekeepers go, and when they cancelled supply contracts with beekeepers in 2021-22 it sent some out of business...

Patrick Dawkins
Sep 2, 20243 min read
UMFHA Terminate “Detracting” Licence Holders
As the mānuka honey price pinch tightens, 26 now former the UMFHA licence holders have had their ability to use the UMF brand revoked...


Bruce Roscoe
Sep 2, 202410 min read
Straining the Alphabet Soup
A short history of the various rating systems for mānuka honey:
TA / NPA / UMF / MGO / MG / MGS / AAH / Pollen Percentage / KFactor / MQS.


Bruce Roscoe
Aug 2, 202413 min read
The Landmine Landscape of Honey Company Mergers and Acquisitions
Writer, former securities analyst, and honey trader Bruce Roscoe reviews the 'landmine landscape' of an industry where investors fear to...

Patrick Dawkins
Aug 2, 20247 min read
UMF Mānuka Honey: Made in Japan
A recent misstep from a UMFHA member which allowed Japanese filling of honey bags brings the Association’s rules under scrutiny...


Patrick Dawkins
Sep 1, 202311 min read
The Pragmatic Beekeeper
This spring is the first for 26 years that Tauranga beekeeper Dennis Crowley will not be in the business of bees. We take a look back...


Patrick Dawkins
Jul 3, 20238 min read
Anger and Frustration in Northland at Mānuka Honey Reassessment
Northland beekeepers are angry and frustrated over what they see as a drawn-out and “secretive” process which lacked Māori involvement...


Ian Fletcher
Jul 3, 20235 min read
The Blundered Mānuka Honey Definition
MPI's reassessment of the manuka honey definition is a failure on multiple fronts, writes experienced public servant Ian Fletcher...

Patrick Dawkins
Jul 3, 20232 min read
UMF Members Call for Review of Trademark Funding
Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association members have called on the Board and management of the association to have greater transparency and..


Patrick Dawkins
May 31, 20237 min read
Setback on Home Soil – ‘Manuka Honey’ Trademark Denied in NZ
It was seen as the opportunity to get New Zealand’s Manuka Honey trademark bid back on course, but a ruling by the Intellectual Property...


Ian Fletcher
May 31, 20235 min read
The IPONZ Mānuka Decision and Next Steps
It might be time to pick up the phone to Australia and talk Manuka Honey opines Ian Fletcher, a former advisor to the NZ trademark efforts.


Patrick Dawkins
Mar 2, 20223 min read
Manuka Honey Team Regroups for UK Appeal
Those behind New Zealand's bid to gain exclusive use of the term "manuka honey" are set to appeal a recent UK ruling that set them back...
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