Yes it’s the highest value honey of all here.

Well done! Soldiering on!!

Hi Dan, it’s difficult to say because I don’t have the exact field sizes but about 3/4 per hectare. They need good wet soil if you expect a high yield but you usually do ok Yes it’s free pollination if I get the nectar

Ok, you said 5 hives per hectare near end of video

1 hectare is 2.5 acres, so 1-2 hives per acre. I hear almonds is 2 hives per acre in Ca. Makes sense.

@@danphillips4590 it’s entirely up to you, better to have less hives with a better yield than too many with small amounts of honey.

For OSR, beans and borage we site 1 per acre for pollination, 1 per hectare for honey.

Great to hear!! Similar to here! Someone just flipped a switch

You can also put pollen patties anywhere and they won't store them.

That's the common opinion held by many with regards to Carniolan. I run 120 Carniolan colonies and have had 1 swarm this season, IMHO it's about space and timing the brood development relative to the start of flow. They can really catch you out if your attention is diverted, and who in spring hasn't had that happen lol.

Yea I’ve heard the same! Do you know the expression? “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” or maybe the recipe I’ve got isn’t too broken so maybe I just stick with losing a few in the extreme weather and also put into play new scenarios for this exact type of pattern..

I am crossing everything! After posting this video yesterday I actually went back to another Apiary and found about 22 colonies all with good Honey in the super so it’s extremely positive. All I’m hoping as we just get a couple of weeks and at least we get some honey in stock and the bottom colonies, replenished with good young bees that are fed well. The forecast isn’t brilliant, but we shall see wishing you the same.

David, here in Minnesota we have seen much the same. Cloudy and rainy. The days without rain were so windy the bees couldn't forage. I've lost my early honey crop but there is hope for the summer flow. My bees have almost shut down on brood production. Guess I should of put some pollen patties on.

Other videos coming later in the week. It’s all been a bit busy to say the least!!

You just need to come here as tourists and collect the seeds from my dry, yellow grasses covering the landscape making a fire hazard. Plant it in that lush green environment and there will be flow all summer long.. after you spread it around ofcourse. It's so strange to me watching a beekeeper complaining about dearth when two days ago he had to trim .. and here l can't make 20m without having my socks and my pants full of seeds attached to them. I could light a fire with two rocks.. lighting a smoker would be stupidity at its best

@@researcherAmateur Yellow grasses, or grasses in general, have little or no value as forage for bees.

@@ChristopherHindle maybe l made a mistake and should've written weeds. Is oregano and mint grass or weed ? But if you want to spread seeds you surely don't take them from green fresh grasses or weeds. You whayt for it to get dry and yellow.. than most of the honey producing stuff seeds finds you, attaching them self to your clouting or whatever the name of your socks is. In this place we used to joke that canola and sunflower are false honeys. If l had that green lush environment Richard has we would have to extract honey all summer. Now l'm crying for a little bit of rain...

@@ChristopherHindle is dandelion a grass ?

So sorry to hear that Kathy. It’s devastating. One thing with starvation, at least they can come back strong afterwards whereas with poisoning it’s often endgame right from the start. I hope you can recover quickly for next year best of luck.

Thanks 😢

@@richardnoel3141 Thanks that one sure put a hurt on things but we are working on things . Thanks