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Maybe the lawsuit in this article. http://www.theprogress.com/news/205877041.html
It mentions beekeepers filing suit, but doesnt mention growers.

>>Honeyview Farms in Rosedale is financially...

Well said, Gregg!. Almonds were the big game changer as everyone knows. And as you point out, its what happens afterwards that can be a problem. Someone apparently dumped a lot of hives on top of...

>>Montana has a three mile radius registration law.<<

Exactly. Its understandable that hives were left longer in Ca after almonds because of the late spring in the North. But with the drought in...

Where could I set down a couple loads in Montana this summer? Its wide open like California, right?

TWF1.41/1.51YW1. I see they have gone up in price some.$64.10

I dont know what Cap Plugs are going for. Last thousand I bought from them was under $30 a thousand, but that was 20 some years ago!

I use a 1.5" hole. Its big for metal cans but mostly I have the round black plastic jugs which have a bigger cap.
Do you use cans or inside feeders? Just curious.

Why? to plug feeder holes..Which I assumed the OP was asking about.The cap size depends on the size drill used.I still prefer a hinged square to close these holes, but a plug works in a pinch.

Those same conditions led to the same problems south of the border this winter, leading to a very real shortage of good hives for almonds, and now a huge demand for queens and bees . So there really...

In the past some Californians owned Canadian honey businesses, and shook packages here to stock the northern outfit. Workers from both countries would work both sides of the border doing almond...

Irwin, its understandable why the border was closed. There was a lot of over reaction going on down here when the T-mites first started showing up, then varroa. But eventually we all got the nasties,...

Letting packages back in to Canada seems like a good idea to me. After all, the USA is open to Canadian honey. Seems we should be able to sell you packages.It worked ok for many years.

Opening the...

got my last box of plugs from these guys:
http://www.mocap.com/thick-wide-flange-plug-cap.html#col3
Theres always a bag of them behind the seat, which comes open, and you can track me by the trail...

A friend uses little galvanized metal squares with a hole drilled in one corner. Nailed to the lid it hinges open and shut and lays flat . I've been using small squares of Masonite dipped in hot...

From the ABJ Extra, Ron Phipps International Honey Report:
" We may note that points of transshipment may shift from Asia to the Middle East and Europe. There are also very credible reports that...

Here is the link to the actual lawsuit. Its a pdf file. It spells out what we have known all along about the massive fraud on American honey producers by the Chinese, with a little help from their...

http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2013.04.22.15.30.archive.html

Wake me up when my .75cent check is ready.

You never know what will set some bees off. My gentle cordovans once went into a stinging frenzy when I used a vac to take bee samples from the entrance for nosema testing.
We can safely assume Dee...

>The classical Norcal drought year feast followed by famine is going to hit the unprepared very hard if the will to feed and the bucks to do so is not preset in the minds of our areas beekeepers.<<
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When we were kids, we used to make snares out of long grass stalks and snare the bluebellies. We always let them go
after amusing ourselves. Occasionally an old one would get aggressive and bite a...

This just shows how different beemen view the situation. IF I had a flow or another pollination to go to and was losing time by overstaying in the almonds, well that would be different. Some almond...

I think experiments showed that those last few blooms dont set any nuts.But I wouldn't want to argue the point with a guy that just wrote out a big pollination check.

I have hives in some late blooming orchards, but last Saturday as far as i could tell it was all over.I couldn't find any flowers that didn't have a tiny nut in the center. A little shake dropped...

In a drought year, feed will be a BIG expense. When Mother nature doesn't provide, its up to the beekeeper to do it. And with no honey crop to sell to pay for it, credit then becomes an issue.

I think you will find the people who make their living from beekeeping will have significantly more inputs than those who dont.