a gm_charlie snip followed by > my comment...
Unless you live in a tallow area, we shoukd ait down and shut up. Seems another attempt to elict sympathy for something most people have no clue about.
>there is a band of tallow along the coast south of me 100 miles. it basically takes over first along the irrigation ditches and then the abdoned rice fields. it can produce a large crop but the honey itself has a metallic after taste and in many years the honey is 'wet'. 'wet' meaning it has a high moisture content and will ferment fairly quickly*. most large operation have equipment to deal with the excess moisture and some operation I know simply sell the product as soon as it hits the holding tank.
>of course a lot of Texas beekeeper large and small are all up in arms over the idea. myself 'not so much'. I suspect over time development (first) and rising sea levels (a bit later) will resolve the Chinese tallow problem.
*the old guy (maybe 35 years ago) who use to run the Dadant store in Paris Texas use to tell a tale about going down around Houston and capturing his first tallow crop and the problem it created.
Gene in Central Texas...
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