Those numbers look impressive, I think there a little stretched out.
My calculator shows 12.8 gallons of honey per hive.
Hard to believe in the short Canadian growing season.
Someone misplaced the decimal point somewhere along the line.
But I've been wrong before.
 
>Hi Dave,
>
>>My name is Dave Jurgens and i live at Brandon Manitba Canada.
>>We have approx. 450 colonies in yards south of this small city.
>>Our white honey sold this year for $1.15 lb Canadian.It was a
>>good year for us, we managed to bring in 128 45 gallon drums.
>>Our ripe honey is sold raw and natural. see you latter.
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>I am not very familiar with the british units, but if I am right,
>you made around 170 lbs per colony and made around $90,000 cdn. How
>many lbs of honey holds a 45 gallon drum? How many persons and how
>many hours each working in the year? After paying all the bills,
>what is your profit? Can a single person handle all the tasks or do
>you have to hire temporary help? Do you farm fields (I dont know
>the name of that flower in english)? Is it clover? What do you do
>in the winter beside Internet? I plan to become a beekeeper to be
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