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Illinois State Beekeepers Association Annual Fall Meeting

- November 7, 2025 -

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Nov 07, 2025 - Nov 08, 2025    
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November 7-8 — Springfield, Illinois
The AHSTC Honey Judging Class is November 7 and the 2025 ISBA Fall Meeting and Show Me the Honey Show is on November 8.

​November 7, 2025
All day Honey Judging Class — Sanctioned by American Honey Show Training Council. Lunch is on your own for the day of the class.

  • Entries to be accepted for the Show Me the Honey judging contest from 3-5 p.m. Friday and 7-9 a.m. Saturday. There will be at least 24 categories spread across 4 classes to compete in.
  • We are pleased to announce one of our guest judges will be Monica Siwiak from Richmond, Texas. She is an AHSTC certified judge and the top winner at last year’s ABF Conference. We will be hosting a “Meet the Judge” table for you to ask questions and get some pro tips from Monica.

November 8, 2025, ALL DAY FALL Meeting and Honey Show

  • Annual Fall Meeting (lunch included for tickets purchased before cutoff)
  • Entries to be accepted for the Show Me the Honey Judging contest (cutoff time for entries to be decided). Judging A and results of the Show Me the Honey contest.

Two of the confirmed speakers are:

  • Krispn Given — Senior Apiculture Specialist and Honeybee Breeder in the Department of Entomology at Purdue University. His research is focused on selecting resistance to the varroa mite by selecting bees with desirable behavioral traits, grooming and mite-biting. Today he is recognized as one of the leading international authorities in the fields of instrumental insemination and honeybee breeding. He started breeding bees 30 years ago.
  • Jerry Hayes — Started out as a backyard beekeeper, studied under Jim Tew at Ohio State University, he was a Research Technician at the USDA/ARS Baton Rouge Bee Lab, Dadant and Sons Regional Mgr., Dadant and Sons New Product Dev., Chief of the Apiary Section for the Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Monsanto Honeybee Lead, VP of Vita Bee Health North America, and now Editor of Bee Culture magazine.

For more information and to register go to https://www.ilsba.com/summary-of-events.html

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