Maybe if we find out who's queens did NOT work for you, we may be able to suggest ones that will. What are your priorities besides making honey? Mite resistance, etc...?
I got some Georgia queens that ARE going to do me 200 lb. + this year, of course that's not an average I'm talking about, just a few boomers out of the bunch.
From a commercial point of view, I would raise my own if I lived as far south as you do. JMGI hit on part of it maybe it is not the queens maybe it is your beekeeping or the locations you are in. If you need 500+ queens a year you have to go with mass producers and sometimes it is hit and miss.
We also need to know your management style, single deep, double deep, etc, frequent inspection vs. "leave em' alone"???
Crazy Roland
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