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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2beefarm" data-source="post: 14033" data-attributes="member: 946">tristan, that's a clear picture — independence culture plus distrust of competitors killed the levy path, and the sector is now reforming anyway. The research-vs-industry deadlock is real: you need industry scale to find the queens, but industry politics poison the selection criteria.The pollination-industry angle is interesting. Growers who depend on hives for pollination have a direct commercial incentive to keep beekeeper numbers up, and they don't carry the beekeeper identity politics. Has anyone in NZ had success getting kiwifruit or avocado growers (or the pollination broker side) to co-fund bee health programs? Or do the growers just pass the cost down to beekeepers through pollination fees?</blockquote>

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