a couple of Mike S snips followed by > my comments.. 
I prefer to spend the time on queen rearing and splits to cover the inevitable losses            
I am having trouble coordinating the harvest of my honey crop with the raising of new queens and splitting my colonies.  L

>I use to have the same problem.  Then I had a bit of a 'virtual conversation' with Michael Palmer and decided I need not do both at the same time and life is so much better now. Basically I still raise a few nucs and queens in the spring < basically as much as anything else to have nucs and queens to sell and of course to keep hives from swarming. Then I raise a few more in early summer, stop during the real heat of the summer and then raise a few more nucs in the fall of the year.

Gene in Central Texas... 

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