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- Joined
- Feb 27, 2009
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- Location
- West Midlands
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- Ten
This year seems to have been very modest on the moors up and down the country, with the bees eschewing the supers and filling the brood boxes.
if you cost your travel at 30p per mile to and from your heather site for each visit you made, plus your site rental, divided by the weight of "heather" honey you have harvested from supers or by stripping brood boxes of available stores, what has been the cost per pound of your crop?
You might also like to also give a second figure after estimating an adjustment for a sugar syrup cost to replace stripped stores or general lightness of the brood box coming back from the moors. This should account for the shortfall in stores that you estimate occurred as a result of being on the moors rather than in their home apiary.
I think that there is possibly some very expensive Heather honey out there and wouldn't it be nice to know that a lot of people are in the same boat.
Perhaps Admin might like to reword my question and canvas cost bands per pound by way of a poll to keep it all generally anonymous. The intention after all is not to compromise anyone, but to figure out the state of the heather crop this year, so that we all know how it's been.
if you cost your travel at 30p per mile to and from your heather site for each visit you made, plus your site rental, divided by the weight of "heather" honey you have harvested from supers or by stripping brood boxes of available stores, what has been the cost per pound of your crop?
You might also like to also give a second figure after estimating an adjustment for a sugar syrup cost to replace stripped stores or general lightness of the brood box coming back from the moors. This should account for the shortfall in stores that you estimate occurred as a result of being on the moors rather than in their home apiary.
I think that there is possibly some very expensive Heather honey out there and wouldn't it be nice to know that a lot of people are in the same boat.
Perhaps Admin might like to reword my question and canvas cost bands per pound by way of a poll to keep it all generally anonymous. The intention after all is not to compromise anyone, but to figure out the state of the heather crop this year, so that we all know how it's been.