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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 13189" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>I guess there is probably an interesting history/story tracking the profitability of beekeeping against frame replacement rates. There were a lot of outfits, following the low-replacement-rates of the 1950s and 1960s due to low honey prices, that were really only good for melting up. Stuart Tweedale mentioned that, with lots of Simplicity frames, etc, being melted out at a dramatic rate once prices for honey had started to rise. I do know that the replacement rates now are significantly higher than they were in my time in the commercial industry. In my time, say, late 1970s, the anticipated replacement rate might be a low as 2 frames per hive per year. With the challenges brought by varroa and virus loads, that would not really be sustainable now, I would think. What would be a guess at current replacement rates?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 13189, member: 44"] I guess there is probably an interesting history/story tracking the profitability of beekeeping against frame replacement rates. There were a lot of outfits, following the low-replacement-rates of the 1950s and 1960s due to low honey prices, that were really only good for melting up. Stuart Tweedale mentioned that, with lots of Simplicity frames, etc, being melted out at a dramatic rate once prices for honey had started to rise. I do know that the replacement rates now are significantly higher than they were in my time in the commercial industry. In my time, say, late 1970s, the anticipated replacement rate might be a low as 2 frames per hive per year. With the challenges brought by varroa and virus loads, that would not really be sustainable now, I would think. What would be a guess at current replacement rates? [/QUOTE]
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