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> The challenge comes when we begin attempting to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff- what are the unquestioningly appropriate BMP's?
Despite all the criticisms heaped upon it, I think BeeInformed has done the best job finding out what works best for the most people in the most different situations. People tend to fall back on the old adage that all beekeeping is local, which it is, but some of these beekeepers travel all over the country and have found out how to keep bees alive.
Not all of them, of course. I visited the apiary of a commercial beekeeper in my area and it appeared that most of the hives in that yard of two or three dozen were dead. The equipment was a mix of new and dilapidated. I felt bad just looking at the stuff. Whatever they were doing, it wasn't to be emulated. In the same region we have a beekeeper who sells 10-15 thousand nucs annually, honey by the freight load, etc.
When Dennis first started the BIP program he pointed out that there is a large group of successful beekeepers and a group of not-so successful ones. The question was how to get the info to move from one to the other. This could be an impossible task, of course. But I think they have done a lot over the years. They have informed my management, for certain.
PLB
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