"Many hobby beekeepers end up buying "leftovers" from commercials...old junk equipment and culled queens that fetch high prices as so-called "nucs".  Or, they buy packages with inferior queens built from shook colonies that are one step ahead of collapse, surviving only due to intensive management that new beekeepers cannot duplicate because they do not have the training/information/ability yet.  

Your hobby beekeepers help your bottom line.  Don't disparage them...HELP THEM.  Give them decent queens, decent equipment, good bees, and training where possible.  

Complain about the hobby beekeepers when your good bees are sold to folks who then mismanage them.  Don't complain, when you have no facts, or when you sell your crappy stuff to hobbyists!

Christina"

Christina seems to have a poor opinion of commercial beekeepers, queen rearers, and nuc producers/sellers. Wherever did these ideas come from? "culled queens"? What are those? The ones someone is replacing? If a commercial beekeeper is replacing queens she doesn't have time to cage and sell the original queens. Much more efficient to kill them, if that's how one replaces queens.

Package bees come from colonies on the verge of collapse with inferior queens? How could anyone stay in business very long selling junk like that? I don't believe they do. Tell me who does.

Who are you talking to in those last two paragraphs?

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