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Do I hear an AMEN for an amitraz product labeled for honeybees. Back on the market after about a 25 year absence. Thank goodness.

Hi Boris.

You can have your opinion about how honey should be sold. That is totally fine. I wish you the best selling your product your way. You can even lobby to change the laws and...

Brod vs sue bee. Case dismissed sept 2012.
Ross vs sue bee. Case dismissed January 14, 2013.

California courts rule my honey is OK as labeled, HONEY.

Look them up, they are good reading.

Yes yes. I currently am paying cash from my pocket to fund that lawsuit.
Guilty as charged, I'm a Sue member.

I think it is silly to assume that decades of heating and filtering of honey...

I don't think CA is getting any different honey than any other state.

CA most certainly has honey on the store shelf that has been heated and filtered. Perhaps I don't understand your question.

Boris
Packagers buy honey, heat it, filter it, then sell it. The USDA says yes you can do that to honey. The USDA also says that if some or all the pollen gets removed it's fine.

It's...

The USDA defines honey as "honey", it may or may not contain pollen, DOESN'T matter. Honey may contain pollen but it is not needed. Standard filtering may remove all the pollen. Honey without...

Boris
It would have been nice if you had linked to the Food News Safety article from April of 2012 instead of that older one from 2011.

The USDA says honey is from nectar and does not need...

Thanks Ian

I think if you look at the history of bulk prices from the 90s until today you will see severe ups and downs early on followed by steady and rising prices. Ending today with $2.00...

Ok, the title of the article and the thread are false and misleading. The "standard of identity for honey" is a work in progress, state by state and nation by nation. The statement made by the FDA...

""In the whole world of VSH bees available to the beekeeper, is there really only one person measuring? Are all the VSH bees ultimately coming from a few colonies at the USDA? Does this sound like...

Well, this has gone way off topic. Par for the course I guess.

At 5-7lbs/hive, you spend all day to pollen sub 167 hives. 2 "chicken squares" go on really fast while we are in the yard pulling...

Make them whatever size you want. I have a honey crop to get in and bees to treat. I don't want to spend time cutting pollen patties. I want to buy them pre made, like everything else I buy. I...

You guys are treating me too seriously.

I'm just trying to Razz Keith about selling the sub in great big buckets instead of a ready to use patty

Hey

Speed is key for getting the job done on time. I buy assembled and painted boxes. Assembled frames. I hire all my trucking. I fly between states when I go to work. I buy sugar liquified. ...

Late this year, sept 10-15 on the second go around for mite checks and treatment. Perhaps some could have been saved if it had gone on with the first mite treatment. Of course that would have...

Hi Keith
I'll send you my contact info. My apologies for any confrontational tone. I'm just trying to describe that sometimes bees get into the combination of wrong stresses. I've pushed lots of...

Hi Jim

I'm not at all surprised. I hope that I don't sound shocked about some dead hives. The funny is that some years the bees survive all the stress thrown at them and some times they...

I've seen this on and off for 10-15 years. And I don't mean the mite damage from the 80s. I'm talking about late 90s when we all basically understood how and when to do basic mite control. I use...

Hi Keith

Thanks for proving my point. I have fed and do feed piles of pollen sub starting as early as August 15-20. This year I got my hands on 12 tubs of your stuff. Nice stuff, but it can't...

This does seem to be one of those years that bees want to die. I saw results as described. A couple locations would be good, then the next would be almost a complete loss. Before any bees died I...

Hi Ian
There are several large beekeepers who run multiple 60s. The argument goes on and on about which is better. I like my 120. What do you tell a guy who has 3 cowen 60s??? My smart mouth...

HI Mark

I like to drop some pollen sub on the hives right after honey/pollen flow stops, late summer early fall. I think it extends the brood season with some good clean protein. Then again...

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