For those who seem interested in hearing how the season has gone in
different parts of the U. S., be it known that here in central Louisiana
this year has been terrible.  We have just finished extracting and made less
than half the honey we made last year.  We got just over 50 pounds per
colony (excellent flavor, but not much honey).  The continuing drought may
be the culprit.  The spring months were incredibly dry, about 40 percent
less rain than normal.  And this has followed a year that itself was 20
percent below normal.

I was born and raised here and remember the "dust-bowl" drought of the
1930s, but (here, at least) that wasn't anything like this.

Walter Weller
Wakefield, Louisiana