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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wainuiwaves" data-source="post: 13382" data-attributes="member: 348">Thanks to everyone that has shared their views in this thread. I’m originally from Chile, and our practices there are so different from how it’s done here in New Zealand. It’s refreshing to read common sense and informed opinions above, and I’m sharing what I’m learning with my friends back home. I used to be a cherry producer and had 20 hives/ha. for pollination.  I lost 70 hives during a hot summer to severe wasp attacks, and the only thing I heard about AFB from a fellow beekeeper was: “If a hive smells like fish, you are in trouble”. No plan whatsoever from the authorities, the beekeeper was responsible for figuring how to deal with it, which obviously meant massive losses. We were lucky to never have had AFB, or maybe we never detected it, and Varroa and the wasps were faster.  The pressure from general malpractice meant swimming against the current all the time.  Reading about Mr. Brown’s case reminds me of South America: The majority of beekeepers are great people, honest and hard working, but their goodness was affected by the occasional opinionated and arrogant people basically winging it, and then justifying their poor decisions with lies and exaggeration when the problems arised, trying to shift the blame and back paddle out of the hole they dug trying to shave production costs.</blockquote>

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