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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2beefarm" data-source="post: 14024" data-attributes="member: 946">Alastair, the genetic-pool argument is the most sobering part of this whole thread. $12M and nothing to show for it puts a hard ceiling on what local breeding programs can achieve when the starting gene pool is narrow. The US/UK advantage being "more import events over more centuries" is not something a program can fix in a few seasons.tristan, the 20-year horizon is a useful reality check — even if AU imports the right stock tomorrow, the translation into locally-adapted bees is generational work. Which makes me wonder: is the better short-term play for AU actually just managing the genetics we already have more deliberately (outcome-based selection at commercial scale) while the import/quarantine path runs in parallel? Or is that too slow to matter against the mite pressure we are already under?</blockquote>

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