Brian Fredericksen wrote:

>I live in central Mn and the cost to winter a hive is about $7 in
materials, fuel & labor to wrap and about $12 to feed for corn syrup, labor
and fuel (assuming an employee cost of $15/hr).  Packages cost $44.00
delivered from California.

You neglected to mention the 50-80 pounds of honey that you could harvest if
you didn't try to winter-over the colony. But as someone else said, this
topic has been debated for decades and it all depends on the value of the
variables (price of honey, packages, labor, etc.)

pb

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