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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 12094" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I agree that paying compensation would encourage some people to encourage AFB in tough times. As for the dogs what a lot of us would like the agency to do is to use Dogs for the initial AFB check which is currently done by AP2's. I have done a bit of this work in the past and when there are just one or two hives then the economics of using a dog would be doubtful but when you have yards of 40 Plus hives there use becomes a lot more viable . I fully agree it is the beekeepers job to find and control AFB but it is the management agency's job to find those beekeepers that aren't doing the job. A lot of inspection work is checking hives that are clean and well looked after and all you find out from checking those 40 hives is that there isn't a problem which the dog could do a lot quicker with no disturbance to the hives. </p><p>While on the subject of saving time and money, if the agency is not responsible for finding AFB then why do they do a full brood inspection which is not only disruptive to the hive but takes a long time while checking a frame or two in every brood box and still find the vast majority of infections and you have to remember that a few days after you inspect a hive it can still come down with AFB. One of the results of this full brood inspection policy is that a lot of the large corporate type beekeepers just get left alone because is just not practical check all the hives. I'm sure some of them have very good AFB policies but I know some of them don't and lie through their back teeth when it comes to reporting AFB. Hopefully random honey sampling will finally catch up with some these beehavers .</p><p>Fair enough there might need to be some changes in the law to enable dogs to be used as of right by the agency but surely it wouldn't cost much to run some initial trials which would just require the permission of the beekeepers and landowners most of whom would hopefully be more than happy to give permission.</p><p>I have nothing to hide and if something is hidden I want it found.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 12094, member: 207"] I agree that paying compensation would encourage some people to encourage AFB in tough times. As for the dogs what a lot of us would like the agency to do is to use Dogs for the initial AFB check which is currently done by AP2's. I have done a bit of this work in the past and when there are just one or two hives then the economics of using a dog would be doubtful but when you have yards of 40 Plus hives there use becomes a lot more viable . I fully agree it is the beekeepers job to find and control AFB but it is the management agency's job to find those beekeepers that aren't doing the job. A lot of inspection work is checking hives that are clean and well looked after and all you find out from checking those 40 hives is that there isn't a problem which the dog could do a lot quicker with no disturbance to the hives. While on the subject of saving time and money, if the agency is not responsible for finding AFB then why do they do a full brood inspection which is not only disruptive to the hive but takes a long time while checking a frame or two in every brood box and still find the vast majority of infections and you have to remember that a few days after you inspect a hive it can still come down with AFB. One of the results of this full brood inspection policy is that a lot of the large corporate type beekeepers just get left alone because is just not practical check all the hives. I'm sure some of them have very good AFB policies but I know some of them don't and lie through their back teeth when it comes to reporting AFB. Hopefully random honey sampling will finally catch up with some these beehavers . Fair enough there might need to be some changes in the law to enable dogs to be used as of right by the agency but surely it wouldn't cost much to run some initial trials which would just require the permission of the beekeepers and landowners most of whom would hopefully be more than happy to give permission. I have nothing to hide and if something is hidden I want it found. [/QUOTE]
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