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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 1661" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>Aah .... you can fiddle numbers to suit your cause. We regularly do it with the Bank ....... Hobbyists are the bane of our lives ...... pushing us out of sites that we don't use one year because the conditions aren't right , or moving into the paddock next door and then not treating for varroa. Even a local commented that the hobbyist has a main source of income elsewhere and doesn't understand the dynamics of a migratory business and will bank roll a site for the feel good ..... sorry guys .....</p><p>I really don't trust the figures put out by MPI ..... maybe they are adding in True Honey co's $5000 pots in Harrods.</p><p></p><p>We put our bee operation up for sale a few months ago..... with the crop on. This year it would have been a bargain, but had no takers, so I guess confidence is still down in the pits ..... and I am still tempted to push them all into a hole, particularly when offered a six month drip feed for honey sold, with the first payment in six weeks, by which time all the bees will be dead for the lack of funds to purchase varroa treatment.</p><p>To give then their due, the purchasers have sharpened their pencil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 1661, member: 212"] Aah .... you can fiddle numbers to suit your cause. We regularly do it with the Bank ....... Hobbyists are the bane of our lives ...... pushing us out of sites that we don't use one year because the conditions aren't right , or moving into the paddock next door and then not treating for varroa. Even a local commented that the hobbyist has a main source of income elsewhere and doesn't understand the dynamics of a migratory business and will bank roll a site for the feel good ..... sorry guys ..... I really don't trust the figures put out by MPI ..... maybe they are adding in True Honey co's $5000 pots in Harrods. We put our bee operation up for sale a few months ago..... with the crop on. This year it would have been a bargain, but had no takers, so I guess confidence is still down in the pits ..... and I am still tempted to push them all into a hole, particularly when offered a six month drip feed for honey sold, with the first payment in six weeks, by which time all the bees will be dead for the lack of funds to purchase varroa treatment. To give then their due, the purchasers have sharpened their pencil. [/QUOTE]
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