Peter

With the crop of 70 lbs of honey per colony that you reported earlier, at,
say, £4 per lb selling price,  even if you feed  50lbs of winter stores
entirely as fondant at £0.45 per Lb, surely there must be a profit left?

Regards

Mike Rowbottom
Harrogate
UK


On 2 June 2014 22:10, Peter Edwards <
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>
> The price of sugar for winter feed is very high here in the UK - 12.5kg
> (27lbs) of fondant is around £12, so winter feed costs can wipe out any
> profit from honey - this is where  A.m.m. scores.
>

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