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On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:54:21 -0500, Irwin Harlton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When the US border closed in 1986 to package bees things changed, but we
>canucks have every disease and pest the US beekeepers have, but we don't
>have any African bees, big deal,the border closure bought us time but made
>us very inefficent.Wintering costs more than package bees.
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so you have lots of small hive beetles in Canada ? Eh? and TM resistant AFB?
I live in central Mn and the cost to winter a hive is about $7 in materials, fuel & labor to wrap and
about $12 to feed for corn syrup, labor and fuel (assuming an employee cost of $15/hr). Packages
cost $44.00 delivered from California.
I have never understood the big deal about wintering. Typically with a 20% loss over winter, 50% or
more of the hives can be split out in spring. Assuming you buy a $15 queen and weather is good you
have 2 producing hives.
Help me with the math please.....
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