Canada’s honey belt dealt a stinging blow

Seasonal foreign workers tending beehives at Good Morning Honey Bee Farm near Edmonton. Alberta produces 40% of Canada’s honey. — Todd Korol/The New York Times

IN central Alberta, where the heaviest rains in more than a century kept worker bees inactive for much of the summer, Mike deJong, a beekeeper, was already facing a bleak honey harvest.

Then US President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on honey and hund­reds of other Canadian products.