Geoff wrote

> A grower mate, for the first time saw large numbers of bees on his crop 
> this season.  Perhaps I should have been there ;-).
>
> Does anyone have comment on them from a beekeepers point of view?

In most years soya beans are grown around us and there has been no honey 
crop.  A few years back we suddenly got some honey from them for a year or 
so.  Querying the farmer it turned out he had changed the variety of soya 
bean he was growing.

This year there has been an increased acreage of soya beans in the area but 
no honey from them.  Not sure of the variety.  Plenty of moisture either by 
rain or irrigation..

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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