>I spent some time speaking about making nucs with some Saskatchewan
>commercial beekeepers--I suggested that some of them go into nuc production
>full time, and forego honey production, in order to produce nucs for sale
>to Alberta, similar to how some of us do that at lower latitudes.

Well, that is what I decided to do a while back and I was getting about a triple 
each year until last winter.  (I have been recommending this approach to a friend who 
is just south of Mike and I am thinking he should  be able to get 10 for 1 or at
least 5 for 1 if he quits trying to make honey).

This year, after queen problems, I figure I won't make that (2.5 to 1).  

Some in Alberta are able to make nucs for sale, but often as not, they are  
advertised in fall for early May, but actually become available for delivery  
too late for most buyers.

Even BC, the place where Alberta beekeepers go to get early build-up was a 
month late this year.  I contracted for hives that I  should  have gotten a
month earlier and should have been splittable on delivery, but were still not
up to  strength when I got them a month late.  That is the problem: unpredicability.

I explain and illustrate all this in detail in my diary, so won't  repeat  myself here.

(BTW, my oxalic vapour experiment is in its 49th day and the results are not what
most would expect).

Allen Dick, RR#1 Swalwell, Alberta, Canada  T0M 1Y0
51 33'39.64"N  113 18'52.45"W
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/

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