> So what's the reasonable manpower to hive ratio to do things properly
The rule of thumb used to be 1000 hives per full-time beekeeper.
Since varroa, in the better operations has dropped to about 500
hives/man.
>and is it happening or have a lot of the losses been due to not being able to
> pay for the necessary manpower ?
Was that a rhetorical question?
Randy Oliver
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