One question should also be asked, do the new beekeepers participate in the poles, I asked at the last bee keeper meeting I attended, none of the new beekeepers had reported any of their losses to anyone. If I had access to the data, I would suspect the creation of ELAP would coincide with the higher losses, and the new bee keepers don't have enough hives to qualify.
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