. Some produce well and others not at all.  At any given time we have over 100 varieties licenced in Western Canada. 

Its very interesting you say that.  We were on a winter variety,  and in fact of 5 different "numbers/varieties"  I had intended to quantify how well each variety did or didn't do. I set up 9 different yards on the 5 types.  The yards were spread over an 80 mile stretch.  Frankly the weather flat killed us.  But 1 yard  the guy had planted a pioneer variety that evry one else had dropped (rumor had it the abouot gave him the seed because it wasn't freeze tolerant enough)   that yard did fantastic.   In fairness it was an outlier in direction and MAY have avoided some of the storms.   Not sure I can trust any of my numbers for yields  but a cpl fields produced zero surplus.  In fairness all the bees were in good shape so no starving,  but no surplus either.


Charles

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