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Quoted $80 per package for 4-2006 Delivery??

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#1 ·
Ordering some packages for next year. I am being quoted $80 per package w/ queen. I almost fell out of the chair. What prices are you hearing?

Scott
 
#27 ·
Just received my price listing from Jester Bee in Arkansas... 3 lb package is now $62, and queens are at $18 (lower for 11 or more). I bought 20 queens from them last year for $10 each, glad I got em when I did.

Ya, it looks like I'll be splitting my own again this year... packages too high. I sometimes make my own queens, and sometimes purchase them, but with queen prices going thru the roof also, it looks like I'll go back to making them.
 
#29 ·
We sell Maine overwintered Carniolian 4 frame nucs every spring... we will be charging $75.00 this year ....These Carniolians are well suited for our New England climate and are a gentle and productive strain of bees ....please call us at 207-474-2945....Bob Egan,485 middle road, Skowhegan,Maine 04976....began@beeline-online.net....we usually sell out by early april so please order early.....
 
#31 ·
"Man O' War I think it's ok to start putting in real data I can clean stuff up by hand if need be"

Dave, please go ahead and take out the price for
3# packages at R. Weaver, as what I submitted
was last years price! Thanks
 
#33 ·
Beeing a newbee myself (first year this year) I wonder hw production will compare if You aplit a hive compared to paying 70-80 for a new package & leaving your old hives alone? IOW would you get 55-65 bux more honey from leaving the old colony alone & buying a package compared to making a split & buying a 15 bux or so queen for the split?

Lew
 
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