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Christine Gray wrote:
>So I come back to asking - what about using a fridge /freezer? Can any
>farmer say whether there is now surplus capacity in say cold rooms used for
>say fruit ? What I am envisaging is a new service to beekeepers in UK - we
>deliver our mini-nucs to a farm cold room in say October (?) and collect in
>say March (?) , after reliable wintering (assuming the nuc was properly
>prepared by the beekeeper, so no guarantees by the farmer except of
>maintaining the temp).
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Interesting idea - should be easy to calculate the relative value of
such a service as the cost to replace colonies (bees, potential honey
lost etc) vs, the cost of the freezer/fridge + electricity incidentals
or rental fees if one were not doing this oneself.
Anyone have any idea how the numbers would stack up?
Keith
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