I would have to submit to you that there are not many ,if any commercial beekeepers in alabama per se.Not ones that move out of state because you can't come back in legally,thus one reason for "no CCD" possibly.

 There are tens of thousands of hives that go across I - 10 in the LA (lower alabama) area going to and from Cali.

 

  I have family in Dothan and wanted to run bees up there but that got shot down, I think it's kind of a protectionism attitude more than anything else.It seems to work good for the queen breeders there.

 

As for exotics, that's the only thing that produces a fall crop in central and south Florida,and I have to agree with Peter, most all the bad things we have already, and the closed states have most of them also,whether they admit it or not.

 For the most part internal restrictions have only cost wasted money and time for the beekeepers affected over the years, and the effects of free trade and heavy cheap imports have brought them to us anyway.

 
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