Bee pollen nation

[Norton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU9Olzk5zT4

 

[BKF Admin]

I have been trying to get a copy of that film for a while.
Does anyone have one I could borrow ?

 

[oliver90owner]

Just one truck-load of bees makes our odd hive or two, or several, or even a hundred seem quite inconsequential! But these days every one of our colonies is important.

I wonder how much honey they could collect if they were used for that, rather than pollination.

Then the question - do any of those big pollinator set-ups collect honey?

Regards, RAB

 

[marcros]

I have been trying to get a copy of that film for a while.
Does anyone have one I could borrow ?

you can get it online, but it is on American region DVD.

Alright I suppose if you have a multi region player.

 

[steve1958]

Looks like an ideal way to spread mites and disease around the country

 

[hedgerow pete]

your right steve it is, can you imagine all the uk bees in one area with some muppet turning up with a hive of fowl brood, and what about the stresses with carting them about as much as they do, the harvest of blossom is only for 4 weeks max and then they get shifted else where again,
from what i can see from the video clip and what i remeber of the film i dont rember seeing and brood box going over two high, maybe the honey is a secondry product produced else where,
the costs of each hive for polination from what i have seen in another web area was this season $100 per hive per week, each hive had to be 8 frames full and more, anything less was not paid for also if the hive died they were not paid for either

 

[Cie]

In my quest for knowledge, during a search Waterstones I found a book which appears to be of the film, although I didn't check to see if they were associated.

As a newbie the thing that struck me is, how wholly disconnected from the bees the owners must become to do it on such a scale.

 

[hedgerow pete]

money over wellfare i thinks, commercial pressures etc, and then they wonder why they have all these problems

 

[Julian Cov]

the costs of each hive for polination from what i have seen in another web area was this season $100 per hive per week, each hive had to be 8 frames full and more, anything less was not paid for also if the hive died they were not paid for either

I have a question.
What is the history of paid pollination in England and what was the steps taken to achieve this?

I ask this because in romania we are not paid in for crop pollination, we want to be paid especially because from now in 2013 we will pay a tax for bee family.