Walter Weller wrote:  If almond growers quit and become beekeepers, the
almond business must really be lousy.

Well put!  I wonder if they threaten their septic tank pumpers that they are
going to go into that business, too?  We Calif beekeepers have never worried
about the growers threatening to keep their own bees--they threatened even
before varroa, when pollination fees were only a few dollars!  We just tell
'em that we'll buy their used equipment in a few years when all their bees
are dead!

Randy oliver

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