Thanks Jim for clearing that up.
Here in Quebec we do actually have some aid from the provincial goverment.
Last year 50% of the colonies died during the winter. Some say that this was
forseen due to varroa resistance to fluvaniate and that the government did
not apply early enough for the permit to use the replacement product,
coumaphos.
I thought that the details of the program had originally been in Tagalog and
translated into French using one of those free translation programs. But the
gist of the program is as follows:-
the beekeeper assumes the first 20% of the loss, if he (she) lost less than
50% then he can claim 60% of the losses, if he lost more than 50% then he
can claim 70% of the losses. Of these losses the government will pay 50% of
the cost of a nuc based on last years prices. With a 50% loss of colonies in
the province there are very few nucs available this year, and the price is
not the same as last year! The beekeepers who make a claim must enroll in
the Crop Insurance Program (now the government gets some of it's money
back).
The beekeepers are therefore going to order packages from Australia. Bees
that instead of having a well earned respite after a hard summer of working
in Australia will now be whisked of to Canada to work for another 6 months.
It is now near the end of February and the beekeepers must order the
packages, which are in short supply, and send a deposit. As of this date,
not one beekeeper has received any of this aid even though all claims were
submitted before the end of December. If it does not come soon it will be
too late to help replace the 17,000 colonies that were lost.
Maybe the U.S. missions to Mars could be used to send certain selected
people to explain available aid programs to assist the wellbeing of the
local forms of live.
I am working on my list this morning.
Peter
> > l seemed to have missed something here. Can the person who
> > originally wrote this please direct me to the person
> > responsible for this subsidy?
>
> I read this a long time ago in a Canadian government document
> containing a historical overview of the "border closure".
> I don't recall the specifics of who, what, when, or where.

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