>
> >My assumption would be that the pollinating colonies are broken down
> through the season for ease of transport and maximum profit. I don't really
> know. Maybe someone who is in the pollination business could comment.
>
> I do try to keep them in a "boiling" brood box, single size for as long as
possible, by taking frames with bees/brood/reserves. I end up adding the
honey harvest+queens+nucs+new families for the yearly production figures.

queen 1 kg of honey
4 frame nuc  4 kg of honey
single   9 kg of honey

I use the early spring number of colonies for calculating seasonal average.

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Juanse Barros J.
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