Welcome to the
Iowa Honey Producers Association
Helping fellow Beekeepers since 1912
Our next IHPA event on the horizon
Summer Field
Day
Saturday, June 20th
The Big Oak Barn
12806 NE 64th St,
Elkhart, IA 50073
Join us for a great day of learning with beekeepers of all levels in Elkhart, Iowa at the lovely Big Oak Barn venue. We have a great line-up of speakers that day including social media icon, David Burns discusing some of the newest ways to fight mites. Watch a live hive inspection by Tyler Holton, talks by Andrew Joseph, and Sara Holton featuring a HANDS-ON learning experience with making lip balms. Also enjoy a live demo on making creamed honey by Shannon Bardole-Foley. Other talks to be announced later.
With your registration, lunch is included. We've arranged a an awesome taco bar for your enjoyment!
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The Big Oak Barn - June 20th starting at 9:30am
Your 2026 Iowa Honey Queen
Morgan Spalding:
Morgan Spaulding is seventeen years old and she lives on a farm in rural Iowa with one dog, five cows, three chickens, and lots of bees! She’s been homeschooled since third grade and has plans to graduate early. She spends her free time reading, writing, and frolicking in the woods. She has a little sister and an older sister who has made her an aunt to a nephew.
She started beekeeping when she was thirteen and received a scholarship from Central Iowa Beekeeper’s Association (CIBA). Mike and Julie Sander were her mentors. She started her own business at fourteen; her honey goes to family and friends all over the country. In 2025, when she was sixteen, she served as CIBA’s Honey Queen and she’s now serving as the current 2026 IHPA Honey Queen. Ever since she was introduced to bees, the little insects have been a passion of hers, growing from two hives in her backyard and a shelf full of bee-related trinkets to an agricultural drive to advocate and educate anyone willing to listen on honeybees.
To book a visit from our Iowa Honey Queen, please make arrangements with our queen chair, Connie Bronnenberg, by emailing her at honeyspringvalleyhoneyfarms@gmail.com
What you just missed!
IHPA Annual Conference
and Tradeshow
Happened - October 24th and 25th, 2025
Prairie Meadows Event and Conference Center
1 Prairie Meadows Dr, Altoona, IA 50009
Your New 2026 IHPA Board and Directors (as decided by membership at the business meeting Saturday, Oct. 25th)
District 5 Director:
Nicholas Simpson
President:
Chris Puetz
Vice President:
HR Cook
Secretary:
Heidi Love
Treasurer:
Lisa Montgomery
Historian:
Tina Marshall
Past President:
Jason Foley
District 1 Director:
Jim Marshall
District 2 Director:
Tom Hart
District 3 Director:
Riley Finer
State Apiarist:
Andrew Joseph
Continuing directors up for re-election at conference in 2026
District 4 Director:
Tyler Holton
District 5 Director:
Nicholas Simpson
District 6 Director:
Marlene Boernsen
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO OTHERS FOR YOUR LOVE OF HONEY BEES AND THE IHPA
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You can order one decal for $10 or two for $15 (make check to IHPA). You probably will want two since you will have two License Plates. You don’t have to have a decal on both. Or you could choose a different non-profit organization’s decal and place on the other plate, as well. Or, in the future you want a different type of decal you can easily change it or update your current decal.
You can see the Decal below and on the DOT’s website which is; https://iowadot.gov/mvd/vehicleregistration/vehicleregistration/Decals
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This decal is made to the same specifications that the month decal is made. So, it should last a few years. Now, for those of you that do not want to buy the Decal License Plate ($5.00 in addition to your registration fee plus $5.00 renewal fee at the County’s Treasurers Office) but still want a COOL DECAL you can use them like any decal – in your vehicle’s window, bumper or even on your refrigerator.
The purpose of this decal is raise awareness of Honey Bees and IHPA in Iowa. Yes, we will raise some dollars too. All funds raised will go to support Iowa State Fair Booth renovations.
Thanks for your support of this fun way of showing off our love of honey bees and of IHPA.
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