>So IMO, the excuse that it would ‘cost a commercial beekeeper money to
breed a bee not dependant on >treatments’ is perhaps more suggestive of a failed
business model than it is affordability.
I don't have much confidence you will see this happen until the current
system totally fails and the large commercial pollinators/honey producers that
truck their bees all over go out of business. The importation of the latest
bee disease/pest from elsewhere in the world into stressed out colonies moved
for pollination or honey production is causing huge commercial hive loss and
also manages to export the newest disease into local bee stocks at the same
time. These guys are losing millions of dollars of hives(probably exceeds $50
million easily), but I don't expect much of anything will be done on a
federal/state level until they are willing to submit to and demand some reasonable
regulation regarding hive movement, disease inspections, etc.
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