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I just got off the phone with mann lake CA branch and they said hopguard is available in WA only as or today.

For yellow jackets I use the Rescue brand pheromone baited traps and have never seen a bee in one. I put them out late spring, late may early june . In early summer you catch a lot of queens....

South Dakota like Montana is a closed state and you can only put bees on registered locations 3 miles from any other beekeepers registered locations. South Dakota like Montana takes this very...

I am betting the real question is covering 100.00$ pollination contracts with 135.00 australian packages.

I have had pretty much the same experience this year to date as sutton and logger. A broker I work with thought in january the price would be at least 150 for 6 frame min.

I have also been getting...

Harry is right. You can drive whatever kind of rig you want, combo grossing here up to 86,000 or in california 80,000. without a CDL. The guys at the scale house will still want to se your med card...

This fall a friend and I resoaked 225 Mite away II pads to factory soaked weight with 50% formic acid. They seamed very close to the factory pads. The bees tolerated them just the same etc. They of...

As far as I can tell from talking to everyone there was not an actual "glut of bees" but there was a perceived "glut" by nervous bee keepers. Panic mode set in price cutting occured and in the end...

Last summer of course all my aus. queens had bad chalk and once the bees quit carrying out mummies I thought they had worked through it. Well they had cause the didnt have any brood left to make...

I also use quick books and have for 10 years. I would say just make sure you set up all your "accounts", "items" etc right the first time. I found it is worth while to have a quick books expert...

It is much cheaper and easier to take the tickets for running the scales and not having a DOT number than it is to get a DOT number and comply. Much, much cheaper and much much easier on the mind.

What is in the new stimulus package for bee keepers?
Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ocnXcGUmiI

First thanks for the report.

As for price we are "locked in at 150" The keeper on one side of us is locked in at 170 and there is firm talk of us getting his contract next year. The broker on the...

In the fall/winter as the trucks come in they are spread out so they can be worked. Fed, medicated and graded for strength before they get placed into area orchards. When the bees come back to...

Every time bees are unloaded when they can fly/ come out of the box in a hurry I see alot more drifting. Bees crawling around on the sides and lids. When the bees are unloaded in the dark and or very...