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Commercial Beekeeping
  1. Systems, not hives
  2. Calendar treatment
  3. Pollination
  4. Migratory beekeeping
  5. Losses as a line item

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Calendar treatment

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  1. Systems, not hives
  2. Calendar treatment
  3. Pollination
  4. Migratory beekeeping
  5. Losses as a line item

Treating every colony in the spring and late summer windows, whether or not it was counted, costs strips and misses the odd colony that needed it sooner. It removes the most expensive mistake a big operation can make: a yard that crashed because nobody sampled it in August.

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