Hi Peter,

> http://www.airborne.co.nz/usstats.html
>
> and compare to other major producing countries.

Interesting data, and the html presentation is cool, no clicking to cover all bases for a country.

> I need to update these!

You must have good sources to accumulate this data.

> A very general observation.......
> Countries with high labour content have decreasing hive numbers.
> Countries with low labour content have increasing hive numbers.

The yield is interesting.

  - Australian beeks pulled in 55Kg/hive in 2000 with a peak of 70 Kg in 1988.

  - The US peaked at 38 Kg/hive in 2000, with the Argentines and China not very far behind overall.

Does a 50% higher productivity/hive for years imply that Australians are better beeks?

Do New Zealanders have similar numbers to the US or Australia?


Thanks for the info

JP

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