Greetings,
I heard that there is a Chinook coming to Allen's region this week - maybe
he wouldn't have to do any digging!
Can anyone give us some figures on the number of hives that have been going
to almonds these last years? What percentage would that be of the total
number of colonies in the U.S. ?

Peter .. in the north and minus 40oC with the windchill


> >Since we're selling off hives, we'd been thinking of sending a
> >truckload -- or two -- if supplies are short.  Of course, we could not
> get them back up here over the Canada/US border, so w'd have to sell
> them, or contract them to someone down there.
>
> Possible problem:
> Digging bees out of a snow bank and shipping to Almonds has problems. Many
> hives  are simply not strong enough to polinate and you pay shipping to
> California and back for your winter deadouts.