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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12349" data-attributes="member: 13">I think it will go back to how it was historically. For part of the history anyway.Back when I started there were half a million less hives in NZ than more recently, manuka was not a thing (well it was a thing we avoided cos it was hard to extract, and worth less than other honeys). Beekeepers worked very hard for modest returns, but you could reliably sell your crop with just a little bit of entrepreneurship mostly locally but some went overseas. Corporates run from a boardroom did not exist, the beekeeper was the beekeeper.When we eradicate another 1/2 million hives, things will return to historical norms. I'll be gone by then but it is pretty much inevitable this will happen. Or since manuka is still a (bit) of a thing, and still might surprise, maybe we just need to lose 1/4 of a million hives.</blockquote>

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