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PLB said
" If the environment isn't safe for them, beekeepers are justified in
pulling out, or raising prices for pollination"
Isn't that the nub of the commercial beekeepers problem?
For many beeks AND farmers, pulling out is not a realistic economic option.
And raising prices for pollination, whilst it sounds sensible (and simple)
presupposes a marketplace that is level and fair. Might work for Californian
Almonds, or any other crop where the growers effectively control the price
they can get for their crop, but for most other beeks and farmers that is
not the case, and it certainly isn't so here!
That being the case, then the problem can be ameliorated by the
manufacturers of these agrichems compensating the beekeepers for the extra
costs and financial losses that they have imposed on the beeks. That is fair
and reasonable, and their profits would certainly sustain that. Many Class
Actions are focussed on obtaining fair and reasonable compensation for
disadvantage imposed on one party by the actions of another.
PeterD
in WA where autumn rains have arrived at last, (and with it the flushing of
soil residual agrichems into our streams and rivers!)
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