>
> >What we need is a metric that factors in all the local environmental
> variables so that we can predict and prescribe what specific husbandry we
> need for our local environments.  That is ambitious and "pie-in-the-sky"
> science, but that kind of a challenge is the juice that keeps us scientists
> going.


FWIW, this is something that I've been pushing very hard for for some
years.  I've been close to getting serious funding for it a couple of
times.  I would like to see demonstration apiaries using BMPs, set up in
each ecoregion (plus ag exposure if indicated), posting transparent
real-time data.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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