The Gull Lake Honey Company
Lacombe, Alberta · Online shop · the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site
Small businessMain products hit
Lorne and Alida Prins keep close to 3,000 hives around Gull Lake west of Lacombe, Alberta, and sell the crop as honey and beeswax candles from a farm store on Range Road 282 and an online shop.
It will strand an enormous amount of honey on the Prairies and it could be really, really damaging to our price this year.Source: cbc.ca, Aug 15, 2026
Natural honey has carried a 50% US duty under HTS 0409.00.00 since August 22, 2026, and Gull Lake's crop is natural honey. Lorne Prins sells his honey inside Canada, but he told CBC that the closed export market will back the national crop up behind him and push Prairie prices down. Two weeks after the duty took effect he said Japan is the next export option and that its colour requirements rule out much of what he has.
In their own words
It's just one more frustration
Lorne Prins, The Gull Lake Honey Company · cbc.ca, Aug 15, 2026
Prins, mid-harvest, on the proposed 50 per cent duty a week before it took effect.
It will strand an enormous amount of honey on the Prairies and it could be really, really damaging to our price this year.
Lorne Prins, The Gull Lake Honey Company · cbc.ca, Aug 15, 2026
Prins told CBC a week before the duty landed that he sells inside Canada but expects the stalled export crop to drag Prairie prices down.
They're looking for a very specific colour, and not all of our available honey is going to meet their requirements
Lorne Prins, The Gull Lake Honey Company · cbc.ca, Sep 6, 2026
Two weeks after the duty took effect, Prins told CBC that Japan is the next large export option but its colour requirements rule out much of the Alberta crop.
We're providing pure honey and they're providing a honey that's been blended down
Lorne Prins, The Gull Lake Honey Company · cbc.ca, Sep 6, 2026
Prins on lower-cost blended imports undercutting Canadian honey at the same time the US market closed.
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Made in Canada
The shop describes itself as "A family run honey farm committed to keeping strong, healthy bee colonies, and providing pure, natural honey and beeswax products across Alberta", and CBC filmed the harvest at an operation with "nearly 3,000 hives spread across roughly 90 locations" in central Alberta.
On the tariff list
- HTS 0409.00.00 · Natural honey · 50% since Aug 22, 2026
The farm's banner reads "Pure Alberta Honey & Candles" and it describes itself as "providing pure, natural honey and beeswax products across Alberta" from its own hives, which is natural honey under HTS 0409.00.00. The beeswax and the candles are not on the Section 338 list; the honey is.
Rates are the additional US duty under Section 338. About the tariffs
Sources
- the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site · accessed 2026-09-09
41113 Range Road 282 Lacombe County, AB T4L 2N3
- the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site · accessed 2026-09-09
A family run honey farm committed to keeping strong, healthy bee colonies, and providing pure, natural honey and beeswax products across Alberta.
- the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site · accessed 2026-09-09
Pure Alberta Honey & Candles
- the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site · accessed 2026-09-09
gulllakehoney@gmail.com
- the-gull-lake-honey-company.square.site · accessed 2026-09-10
250g Jar of Honey | The Gull Lake Honey Company
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
The operation has nearly 3,000 hives spread across roughly 90 locations in the heart of Canada's largest honey-producing province.
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Harvest is in full swing at a family-run honey farm in central Alberta
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Though Prins solely sells locally, he will still be hit by new tariffs, saying he expects domestic prices will plummet if Canadian exporters lose their top international buyer.
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Lorne Prins, owner of Gull Lake Honey Company in Lacombe, Alta., said Japan is the next major export option, but their strict criteria make rapid expansion unlikely.
- albertabeekeepers.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
1st Generation Beekeepers, but 3rd generation farmers.
- albertabeekeepers.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
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