>>The problems I see are polluted hives, polluted air and polluted
soil.
A fellow beekeeper has been keeping a few hives on farms east of
here. He does it for the pollination of crops. He says, unlike his
hives in suburbia, the farm hives never build up well in the
spring/summer and the queens get frequently superceded. This changes
in the late summer, after the farmers stopped using chemicals, but
the colonies don't get strong enough to gather the fall crop in the
adjacent fields.
Clean hives and pastures are key.
Waldemar
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