>Randy Oliver says commercial beekeeping is lucrative in California. Surely room for several hundred thousand out of state bee hives until the drought breaks? Very funny! As Bob knows, many commercial Calif beekeepers move their colonies out of state during the summer, since we ALWAYS have drought every summer. Midwesterners may have to learn how to keep bees the way that we do! -- Randy Oliver Grass Valley, CA www.ScientificBeekeeping.com *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm