I work for a large apple orchard company. We rent about 800 hives each spring.
We are planning to get into pollination on a small scale, mainly for flexibility to bring a few hives in early or leave late etc.
I am trying to decide whether to use deeps or mediums. If I use 2 mediums, will that be a large enough hive to be a appropriate pollinating unit or do I need to figure on 2 deeps?
Also, I see pallets with screened bottoms. Does that work well? Crazy question: what if you just left the screen off and had it open on the bottom?
Best wishes, Bill Sharp
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