Bees wiped out by amateur keepers

[Chris B]

These particular fields are growing the same crop, year in, year out, depleting all the same resources, and allowing a pest-build up which they counter with more and more "icides"

Thankfully this is not the attitude of most conventional farmers who will rotate their crops, even if it's a simple cereal/rape/beans cycle. This is driven by economics because pesticides and fertilizers are not cheap and rotation obviously reduces the need. Some may be tempted to max out on the crop giving the best returns, but in a volatile market most are sensible enough to hedge their bets and grow different crops to avoid getting caught out with a single low-value crop.

 

[m100]

and drug free

When Captain Spacey was ranting on Farming Today he gave the distinct impression he was on a cocktail of mind altering drugs.

 

[Poly Hive]

I personally do not think it possible by the soil association rules to produce organic honey in the UK.

PH