Good Day All,
>          I am presently the beekeeper for The Plant Genetic Resources
Unit located on the campus of The New York State Agricultural Experiment
Station in
> Geneva, NY. We have about 80 parent colonies and 60 double nucs that I
> later split to acquirer a total of about 200 nucs. We use these nucs for
> pollination purposes only. We are tossing around the idea of renting bees,
> in nuc form, instead of keeping bees all year. Reasons for doing this are;
> of course money, we hope to save a great deal by renting bees from a
> beekeeper. Also we are interested in freeing up my time to do other work
> such as plant characterization. I am wondering... are there any of you out
> there that can offer me some input on this matter. I need to know if you
> can supply us with about 200 nucs in the mid to late spring to be recovered
>  in late summer early fall. I need to know prices, if you would be
> medicating hives prier to delivery, if you would be interesting in
> bartering the first year. ie...we have a lot of bees and equipment to trade
> in return for nucs rented. I am in need of information and estimation of
> cost from at least three different beekeepers. Let me know if you are
> interested in talking about this option further or if you have names of
> beekeepers I could get in touch with that may be interested in helping us
> out. Thank you for you time. Sheri Day

Sheri E. Day
Pollination Technician
USDA/ARS
Plant Genetic Resources Unit
Cornell University
Geneva, NY 14456
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