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Re: Honey/Sugar/O'l Drone
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 "allen dick"   "Loop until?"

allen gave us a lovely summary - except he did not include the market
argument - which IMHO is all - which could be described as 'I am happy to
buy honey for 12 times the cost of sugar so long as I believe it is pure
honey.  Tell me it may be diluted by up to 5% - or even up to 25% (the
threshold for taste , according to tests mentioned in Johansson, Some
Important  Operations in Bee Management) and I will feel taken for a ride.
You, the producers, must make up your mind. Guarantee you use production
methods to produce pure honey and I will continue to pay.  Use methods aimed
to cut your costs which reduce the quality of honey u want me to buy, and I
will cut the price I am prepared to pay to, let's  say, sugar and a half'.

Who will feel loopy then?

If u produce to sell on the open market, respect the consumer - who now has
increasing choice on whether to buy or not.  Beekeepers cannot go on as if
still living in Soviet Russia.

Robin  Dartington

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