>On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:35:00 PST Ivan McGill <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
>>>Check out today's Wall Street Journal - front page. There is an
>>article about the California beekeeping/almond situation.
>
>Summary of Article:
>
>Focuses on a migrant beekeeper, Randy Verhoek, who trucks the
>California-North
>Dakota circuit, with his wife and two kids. She schools them on the road.
>He trucks
>about 3000 hives.
>>snip<<
I took my 18 hives with another beekeepers bees today to an almond orchard
by the town of Orland,CA today. I ask the manager how many acres thay had.
He said "4000" I noticed that they were trimming bare root trees to plant more.