Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Do you understand what you are saying? Most commercial
> beeks are not queen 
> breeders. 

I know exactly what I am saying! And they most certainly are breeders. Every beekeeper is basically a breeder of bees. The stock you keep around affects your stock as well as your neighbors, negatively, as well as positively. So choose wisely in implementing strategy, and ‘breed wisely‘ will follow. 

> Most of the competition has went bankrupt. Many in the
> early 90's using the 
> "live and let die" method trying to find a bee to
> survive varroa.

That can be explained by a ‘failed business model’.  

What you are setting up as an example has nothing to do with the live and let die method.  It does however, have everything to do with a failure to implement a working business plan, which necessitates a business NEVER places at risk all its resources to research and development.

The recommended allowance for research and development is 2 to 5 percent, perhaps as much as 10% tops.  So therefore, any business going bankrupt with a ‘live and let die method‘, did so by allocating too much of their resources towards research and development.  And places the root cause for the bankruptcy on the failure to implement a practical business plan.

Joe


      

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