HUGE Honey Crops!!!
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- I sat down with @bobbinnie9872 to discuss big honey crops. This is a FUN talk for any bee nerd.
Link to Bob's video with Keith Delaplane about polyandry. If you haven’t seen this you won’t understand part of the discussion.
• Polyandry in Honeybees...
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Hey Nathan! I see you used some photos from our 2019 bumper clover crop we share cropped with Bob! Very cool! That's my mom with her arm stretched in the thumbnail. Much love Our company is Basic Honey out of Pukwana, SD and Live Oak, Fl.
That’s awesome! I’ll pin this so hopefully more folks see your company name.
@@DuckRiverHoney Appreciate it! Love the videos
This is a great example of the value of social networking. Probably no book or doctoral dissertation has recorded that nugget of knowledge: 1800' to 2200' elevation being the most fecund nectar flow for a specific tree species. Thank you for letting us sit in on the conversation.
Barry it was a fun talk!
Ya, that’s strip farming was a common practice on dry land farming , with todays modern management practices, strip farming isn’t used anymore because of the way we can conserve moisture.
Interesting Ian, so no-till killed farrow land? I never knew it was a water conservation practice, figured it was more about soil nutrients.
Bob the GOAT, Thanks for the interview.
Thanks Peter!
My friend does 600 lb with 13 hives. He seals off the hives so well and has a tray with hydrated lime at the bottom to trap beetles. he has basically no beetles, varroa or moths.
Another great interview with my two favorite beekeepers on RUclips! Thanks Nathan.
Thanks James!
Thanks for another great interview.
That Bob is such a fountain of info and thanks for sharing it with us. I think the many ways of keeping bees is part of the reason why we love our bees.
Thanks Russell!
Thanks for helping us to make a bigger honey crop. Thank 'you for all the information.
It was a fun talk!
Enjoyed the interview. Great job Nathan. Need more. Thanks. Take care.
Thanks!
We have tulip poplar trees in Virginia but they rarely produce a honey crop. I have read that tulip poplar trees did produce bigger honey crops in the past but no longer do so because the trees need cool nights to produce a lot of nectar. With our warming climate we don't have the cool nights anymore. We also have basswood trees (also called Linden) in Viriginia and sometimes I get a crop of basswood honey which I love the taste of. The average honey crop in Virginia is only about 30 or 40 pounds per colony.
Great video. Thanks for making to effort to pick the brains of the wise and experienced.
Thanks Skip!
Great interview, thanks for the info!
Thanks!
Good stuff Nathan!! Mr.BoB is an awesome inspiration and informative long time beekeeper thanks Nathan 😊 🙏
Thanks Mark!
When I first started bee keeping, I would always talk to the old bee keeper here in town. So many cool things you can do to make a honey crop are just lost waiting for someone else to rediscover them. Thanks Bob for sharing some old secrets, can’t wait to apply some of these.
Thanks Koby
Great discussion, thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Now you got my mind going a hundred different directions... as always awesome INFO
Thanks Harold 😅
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Thanks Lynne!
I learn so much from this amazing community thank you to both of you.
Thanks Joe!
Great interview Nathan! Take care
Thanks!
Beekeeping to the power of 2. Two of my all time favorite beekeepers to listen to/watch and here they are together!. What a great format...interesting stories mixed with great advice/learning's. Taint no better!
Thanks Dwight!
Great interview Nathan 👍 👏
It was a lot of fun!
Great interview.
Thanks Kevin!
Ha Nathan this was great Thanks
Thanks Frances!
Great video, Nathan.
Thanks Hope!
Great interview!
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Appreciate the great info as always. Keep it up.
Thanks!
Nice interview. Anytime Bob speaks it becomes an interesting topic. You performed a very good interview. I absolutely loved making cut comb a few years back. I no longer sell honey because I just can't get a certified extracting facility.
We would make a white wax capping with a light lemon yellow honey that would knock your socks off.
If you're truly interested in making comb honey perform the Juniper Split instead of what Eugene Killian did. It's an easier process.
I just might try some because friends absolutely love comb honey. Just remember, as Bob stated the amount of comb produced isn't near the amount you can make in liquid honey.
I’m trying to get really good at liquid honey. Until then I probably won’t add to many extras. I think comb honey is super neat though.
Nice work. Last 10 seconds are so good 👍
Thanks Aidan!
Thanks for the information liked the story’s
Thanks!
LOVE IT!
Thanks!
Right about 19:40 most hobby backyard beekeepers said, “what in the sam hills is he saying”😮
Wow you answered a lot of comments, thanks for this honey 🍯 review.
Thanks Joe, I try to answer most comments.
Now, I'm not a very experience beekeeper (started in 2020). But 3 of my 5 hives survived last year's winter. Kept 2 in production and split the third ( got 15 hives so far 😁) those 2 made me 25+ gallons of honey. During the basswood flow, they drew and filled 2 medium supers each.
That’s pretty good performance!
@@DuckRiverHoney I need to put more effort in selling it... Being an introvert, and not having any sales experience makes it.... a challenge >.
For sure yellow blossom and white blossom sweet clover are huge crops five feet of plant covered in flowers it blooms untill late in the fall nice clear honey its a field of dreams .
Northern ALberta and Bc
Has great crops too theres lots of forage crops .
All you need is it to rain at night and get sunny and hot during the day 🎉😮
What I like about this discussion was it wasn't like reading a book. All homespun knowledge from someone who has tried things and explain why it worked or didn't work. Mentioning different times that something works but the out come wasn't worth the effort. His view on queen excluders was on point.
Thanks Lawrence!
Bob, I love your stories. Please write a book about them.
I’ve encouraged him to write a book as well. I’d buy it.
Great to hear I’m not crazy when I say that excluders can cause a swarming event…….I am absolutely terrible at excluder timing…and that I’m not crazy when I say I like small nest out of winter….😀😀. Great interview Nathan!
Thanks Mike, that’s a fun topic, I really enjoyed it.
The strip farming in North Dakota is probably for wind erosion control.
Interesting, thanks.
The 4 way heterosis is how meat chickens are bred, and I think this might be the future for bees.
It was very difficult to maintain the inbred lines given the life expectancy and tendency to supersede and swarm. In the end it wasn’t profitable to maintain them.
@@DuckRiverHoney It was just the first iteration, it would be quite an undertaking to see it through. In poultry the foundation stock of almost a quarter million breeders is tracked by feed, carcass and health parameters, Apiculture just isn't there yet.
I've had this happen to, We use to run up almost to the Canadian border up there in North Dakota and we delt with the same thing! Honey bound brood nest, bees drowning in their own spit and finding the nests underneath the 4-way pallets! good times and lots of mess! HAHAHHAHA.
Crazy times.
Honey plants of North America (north of Mexico) a guide to the best locations for beekeeping in the United States, written for the A.I. Root Company by John H. Lovell . illustrated from photographs by the author. (1926)
Mostly I sell bees but for a huge honey crop on a flow hive I have run two double deeps above and below the flow hive frames. It's a beast of a tower that my hubby threatens to stake and guy wire. That monster double hive does fill the flow hive fast. But holy moly is this 5'7" beekeeper happy to split everything back to 2 different hives plus make several nukes at the end of the flow! Plus just getting too old (or maybe just plain lazy) to inspect that bottom hive.
Soon, grasshopper, you will "snatch the pebble" from Bob's hand! A wise man knows who to gain counsel from!!!
The first step on the path to wisdom is listening to wisdom!
Link to Bob's video with Keith Delaplane about polyandry. If you haven’t seen this you won’t understand part of the discussion. ruclips.net/video/GKA6K564P8c/видео.html
: Queen honeybees can sting multiple times, her "stinger" (more correctly called the Ovipositor) is not barbed and does not pull out like the worker bee's stinger (which is barbed), and she doesn't die after stinging. The worker bees stinger is also call a ovipositor, since both the queen and laying worker bees can use their stingers for laying eggs.
Although queens are capable of stinging it is primarily used to kill rival queens and of course laying eggs. Having handled 100's of queens gloveless, I have never received a Sting by a queen.
I’ve heard other beekeepers say the same thing about queens never stinging them.
Fantastic informative VID but how can I get a baby from Bobs eyebrows they are awesome :) bit of fun :)
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Thanks Lynne!
16:00 to 16:40 Genetic diversity is the key to colony health. I have a wild caught hive that came to me last year. I was observing them carefully and noticed different body coloration's of the foragers and the guard bees. My theory is that modern breeding techniques minimize drone diversity which minimizes worker diversity which in turn limits the diversity of workers who are good at cleaning and fighting off mites, moths, and diseases. I think the health making workers have been weeded out of the gene pool in favor of honey making offspring. The workers produce the drones that breed with the queen. Multi-drone breeding is a survival attribute for the bees. I live near a woods that has wild bees there. They come to my feeder and are completely black. I've read that the northern European black bee is very winter hardy and we get cold snaps here of below -20F. I contend that they have been here for 200 years since this area was settled by European immigrants, and we have no beekeepers near here now. The wild bees have fared well all this time with freedom to breed a variety of drones. I would appreciate feedback since this is just an observation and theory of a sideline beekeeper.
If you watch Bobs polyandry video you’ll find it interesting. I do know that some beekeepers intentionally bring in new genetics just for the hybrid vigor.
@@DuckRiverHoney I'll give it a look see.
Hey, thanks for this video. do you know anyone who has placed an apiary on a solar field? I need to know what to charge for providing an apiary for a local solar field operator the goal they have is qualify as an Agri solar field operator.
No, I don’t know anyone doing that. The drive time is what I’d look at, especially if it wasn’t a location I’d normally want to use.