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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jessej" data-source="post: 13366" data-attributes="member: 789">So as I walk the ancient trails of Europe… my mind wanders back over a past life… history and reflection on bees and the battle it was to keep them alive.The AFB program has been with us since the day I bought my first hives over thirty years ago. The first week I found two AFB… rang the guy who I had purchased them from… who told me he had never had a problem with AFB….Scroll forward thirty something years…. Springbank honey have had a big burn up… we had a big burn up when we ‘dumped’ our hives on a falling market…I considered myself to have been ve an expert at finding the stuff, but somehow we never got on top of it… perhaps because we could never break the reinfection merrygo round….when we never really knew who our neighbours were.And the answer….?The agency is possibly a necessary stop gap measure of control…. The firebrigade before science comes to the rescue with cheap testing ir a vaccine… or we join the real world and buy a bucket of antiB.The catchcry for being Antibuotic free was that we’d garner a better price on the world market… but thirty years later we are still at the lower end of the payscale for our commodity…Perhaos it’s time to face reality….</blockquote>

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