Bob Harrison wrote:

> Bees simply *alive* is not good enough.  35 barrels of honey from 700 hives
> is only about 31 pounds per hive (or about one plugged shallow super).

To me, 35 barrels going for 60-70 barrels is amazingly good. Especially when
you factor in the fact they started out this year with 300 - 400 hives, have
drawn out 1000 deep supers of foundation, are only halfway through the
season, all this in a desert terrain, chemical and drug free produced which
is selling for 3 times the market price, conservatively. According to my
math, they have nothing more to prove.

Regards,
Barry