Rob Green wrote: Keeping bees alive is important. Doing so without antibiotics or chemical treatments is a requirement of the market for me.
When these requirements first came out, I was surprised to see terramycin as an acceptable and "approved" antibiotic for organic cerification. I also had to survey a two-mile radius and record all the crops and applications. It was nuts and next to impossible.
However, you raise a critical point that we cannot control the environment outside the hive, but we can sure make it safer inside the hive.
Grant
Jackson, MO
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