Anyway I was going to suggest checkerboarding some empty drawn comb in the pulled out supers if you want to maximize the crop that the bee's are packing and ( personal preference here) Id newspaper combine that queenless with another low strength colony and get four decent hives working that flower patch while it's booming. I'd also have a full depth box of food capped or cured first because I run double deeps and prioritize my bee stores before a honey crop it's just the way I do it myself. Beekeeping approaches is like noses everyone has a completely different one and everyone is right ( until they start loosing colony's anyway)😂 great to see a nice flow for you👍😃
I really do appreciate hearing what everyone else does, I’d love to go out and see first hand how you guys do it, I’ve seen small parts of beekeeping in Australia, not sure if that’s similar to you or not?
@@Lagness_Farms_Honey most beekeeping in NZ is a " fire and forget" style which is similar to the southern Australian method of beekeeping, especially in larger commercial apairys. Quick checks, not a lot of time spent in hives, using higher numbers of hives to offset losses and doing splits from larger colony's during spring ( which is just started) and throwing on treatment for varroa with a couple of mite washes per apairy, usually about 35 hives strong per apairy, hives all honey supered around the same time and pulled at the same time. I like to employ a more in depth approach treating each hive as a separate unit and adjusting accordingly, it's far more time consuming and not the standard approach here but I'm convinced time spent completely checking individual hives pays dividends during production season and lowers disease incidents but it's definitely not the standard model of New Zealand beekeeping which is bang through the boxes quickly.😂
Plug away😂 little bit of a rant here, I'm a huge believer in giving local producers top spot in the local markets first so you should brag about being the best in Britain, we do it too because we're the best in the world at everything 🙄in NZ including selling our prime NZ beef and lamb meat in British supermarkets at half the price we pay for the rubbish cuts in ours and pricing local British farmers out of the markets where they should have the prime spot in their own country. it's not like we have a shortage of supermarkets here😂 and don't get me started on "That manuka Honey" stuff that some NZ outfits sell in the UK for 200 quid a jar, I still say it's rubbish and we have much better honey varietys which we should be prioritizing selling to the 5 and a half million people who live here first and our honey should always take second seat to locally produced honey. 🥵 Ok, I'll get off my soapbox 😂 preaching to the convertered anyway but a lot of kiwi producers would prefer to sell to local markets first and don't jump on the export bandwagon, I certainly don't. If we don't allow honey imports here from you we don't have any right to shove our crap on your shelves either. I point blank refuse to export my honey on that principle, local beekeepers can and should sell local honey to their markets in country first. You know I was going to talk about your honey supers but I've written a book already😂
Haha love it! But it’s totally true though, the problem with UK is that the government just doesn’t care. I believe there’s only around 14% of British honey that is put on the shelves everything else is imports!
@@Lagness_Farms_Honey woah😳14% is ghastly and I hope that Improves to give local beekeepers a larger market at home. You guys have some fantastic honeys which I hope the British public discovers😃👍 tastes better than the manuka rubbish too😂
Well done. Love the excitement in your voice
Thank you, was a real shock I have never experienced a flow like that before!
Anyway I was going to suggest checkerboarding some empty drawn comb in the pulled out supers if you want to maximize the crop that the bee's are packing and ( personal preference here) Id newspaper combine that queenless with another low strength colony and get four decent hives working that flower patch while it's booming. I'd also have a full depth box of food capped or cured first because I run double deeps and prioritize my bee stores before a honey crop it's just the way I do it myself. Beekeeping approaches is like noses everyone has a completely different one and everyone is right ( until they start loosing colony's anyway)😂 great to see a nice flow for you👍😃
I really do appreciate hearing what everyone else does, I’d love to go out and see first hand how you guys do it, I’ve seen small parts of beekeeping in Australia, not sure if that’s similar to you or not?
@@Lagness_Farms_Honey most beekeeping in NZ is a " fire and forget" style which is similar to the southern Australian method of beekeeping, especially in larger commercial apairys. Quick checks, not a lot of time spent in hives, using higher numbers of hives to offset losses and doing splits from larger colony's during spring ( which is just started) and throwing on treatment for varroa with a couple of mite washes per apairy, usually about 35 hives strong per apairy, hives all honey supered around the same time and pulled at the same time. I like to employ a more in depth approach treating each hive as a separate unit and adjusting accordingly, it's far more time consuming and not the standard approach here but I'm convinced time spent completely checking individual hives pays dividends during production season and lowers disease incidents but it's definitely not the standard model of New Zealand beekeeping which is bang through the boxes quickly.😂
Nice well done. Can I ask you what is your beesuit and where did you purchase it.
It’s a swienty suit, we did get them from paynes but sadly they have closed doors now. I think Gwenyn Gruffydd might sell them however 😃
Plug away😂 little bit of a rant here, I'm a huge believer in giving local producers top spot in the local markets first so you should brag about being the best in Britain, we do it too because we're the best in the world at everything 🙄in NZ including selling our prime NZ beef and lamb meat in British supermarkets at half the price we pay for the rubbish cuts in ours and pricing local British farmers out of the markets where they should have the prime spot in their own country. it's not like we have a shortage of supermarkets here😂 and don't get me started on "That manuka Honey" stuff that some NZ outfits sell in the UK for 200 quid a jar, I still say it's rubbish and we have much better honey varietys which we should be prioritizing selling to the 5 and a half million people who live here first and our honey should always take second seat to locally produced honey. 🥵 Ok, I'll get off my soapbox 😂 preaching to the convertered anyway but a lot of kiwi producers would prefer to sell to local markets first and don't jump on the export bandwagon, I certainly don't. If we don't allow honey imports here from you we don't have any right to shove our crap on your shelves either. I point blank refuse to export my honey on that principle, local beekeepers can and should sell local honey to their markets in country first. You know I was going to talk about your honey supers but I've written a book already😂
Haha love it! But it’s totally true though, the problem with UK is that the government just doesn’t care. I believe there’s only around 14% of British honey that is put on the shelves everything else is imports!
@@Lagness_Farms_Honey woah😳14% is ghastly and I hope that Improves to give local beekeepers a larger market at home. You guys have some fantastic honeys which I hope the British public discovers😃👍 tastes better than the manuka rubbish too😂