National Honey Board Member Directory - 2007
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Chair / HandlerA beekeeper for 46 years, Ashurst manages 5,500 honey bee colonies for pollination. Ashurst is a 3rd generation beekeeper and a 2nd generation honey packer. The majority of his business is industrial honey. Ashurst has served as president for the California State Beekeepers Association and is past president of the National Honey Packers & Dealers Association.
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Vice Chairman / Producer, Region 5A third generation beekeeper, Clint, along with his wife Janice, owns Walker Apiaries in Rogers, Texas. The business manages 2,000 honey bee colonies for honey production and packaging, pollination services, bee production and queen bee breeding. Walker is a Past President of the American Beekeeping Federation, a member of the Institutional Review Board at Scott and White Hospital.
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Secretary-Treasurer / HandlerNancy Gamber Olcott is the President and CEO of Dutch Gold Honey, Inc. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. With over 30 years of experience in the honey industry, Nancy is also a member of the National Honey Packers & Dealers Association, the American Beekeeping Federation and the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association. She also serves as Treasurer of the Gamber Foundation, an organization that financially supports local charities.
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Executive Committee/ Producer, Region 6Wilbanks is a fourth generation beekeeper. He manages approximately 6,000 colonies of bees for queen and package bee breeding. In the past, Wilbanks was president of the Georgia Beekeepers and American Bee Breeders Associations and the American Beekeeping Federation. He was also chairman of the Georgia Farm Bureau Honeybee Commodity Committee and the Carl Hayden Honeybee Laboratory Liaison Research Advisory Committee. Wilbanks also served on the American Farm Bureau Research Committee on Fire Ants and Africanized Bees and the American Farm Bureau Honeybee Advisory Committee. In addition, past U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Richard Lyng, appointed Wilbanks to represent the US Beekeeping Industry on the USDA Varroa Mite Negotiated Rule Making Committee in 1987-1988.
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Executive Committee/CooperativeMark Mammen has been involved with the honey business for 32 years. He has been Executive Vice President of the Sioux Honey Association since 2005. He spent the previous 15 years as Vice President of Member Relations. He spent his first nine years of employment with the association in the packing/production area.
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Producer, Region 1George Hansen became a beekeeper after a first career as a teacher in a bilingual education project. Since starting the Foothills Honey Company from scratch 30 years ago, George and his wife Susan now run 3,500 colonies in Oregon, Washington and California. Hansen is also a partner in a second beekeeping venture in Montana. George Hansen has served as president on several occasions in the Oregon State Beekeepers Association, currently is on the Board of Directors of the American Beekeeping Federation, and the Foundation for the Preservation of the Honeybee. Hansen is serving his third term as a director on the Colton School District, having been chairman and vice chairman.
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Importer 1Boedeker is president and founder of an international marketing firm in Tustin, California. He has worked in the honey industry for 30 years. Boedeker served as past president/director of the Western States Honey Packers and Dealers and past vice president of the National Honey Packers and Dealers Association.
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Producer, Region 7Beekeeping is a family business for David Shenefield. His father, Don Shenefield, started Clover Blossom Honey about 45 years ago, and now David manages the operation. He manages 2200 colonies for honey and beeswax production, and also provides pollination services, as well as raising queens and making nucs. He currently serves on the Honey Bee Committee of the Indiana Farm Bureau, is the current director of the Indiana State Beekeepers Association, and was Chairperson for the Indiana Young Beekeeper Award.
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Importer 2Dale Bauer has been involved with the honey business for 50 years. He is a honey producer, managing 10,000 hives, and also supplies pollinating services as well as importing bulk honey. He is a past president of the Minnesota Beekeepers as well as a past board member and vice chairman of Sioux Honey Association. He and his wife Lois have three children who, along with their spouses, are all involved with the bee business.
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Producer, Region 4Heine has been a beekeeper for 30 years and manages 800 bee colonies for honey production and pollination services. He is past president of the Wisconsin Honey Producers and past chair of the National Honey Nominations Committee.
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Producer, Region 2Jim Rodenberg has been a beekeeper for 35 years and keeps 4,500 colonies of bees for honey production in eastern Montana and pollination in California and Washington. He is past president and a board member of the Montana State Beekeeping Association.
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Producer, Region 3Zac Browning is the co-owner and manager of Browning’s Honey Co. Inc. of Jamestown, ND. He is Vice President of the American Beekeeping Federation and is a member of the North Dakota Beekeepers Association and the California Beekeepers Association. He has been on the National Honey Board Voluntary Quality Assurance Committee for the last three years.
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Guide to Region Codes |
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Region 1 |
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada, Utah, Alaska and Hawaii
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Region 2 |
Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Region 3 |
North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Region 4 |
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Region 5 |
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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Region 6 |
Florida, Georgia and Puerto Rico.
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Region 7 |
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont & Maine
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