> We also learned at ESHPA that the number of colonies has increased in the USA, but honey production has decreased. There seems to be a correlation here.

There may be a direct correlation between nutrition and colony size, or colony health, but honey production has always been all over the map. You can have the healthiest, happiest hives on the planet but if they are in a poor honey producing region, they won't produce much honey. Regions vary widely and the same region varies from year to year. The primary reason being: weather. "It is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done." -- Charles Dudley Warner

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