Hello All, I can give only a general report from Missouri as we have only pulled comb honey supers so far. I plan to start with extracted honey supers in a week if *heat wave* ends. We have got heat indecies of 115 F. the next few days. I have checked all yards in last few days and honey crop looks above average but hard to tell how much is unrippened nectar. I want to be a optimist but *Old Farmers Almanac* predicts the hotist summer in years for our area. Right now the sweet clover is still in bloom from all the subsoil moisture. Seven to ten days of 100 F. temperature will burn the sweet clover up and the bees will be short on plants to work until the fall flowers start. Let's hope the temperature will relax and we will get a decent rain next week to prolong the flow. For whatever reason many midwestern beekeepers saw high overwinter losses. Many did not put all the deadouts back into production. Others split thin to make up losses. Those which split thin were helped by our main flow starting later than normal. Each year is different in Missouri. Many beekeepers *TRY* to predict when the main flow will start but at best the prediction is simply a guess. My best guess was off by a week this year. Best of luck with your honey crops! Although most of us don't keep bees only for the honey crop the honey crop helps with the bottom line. Sincerely, Bob Harrison Odessa, Missouri