why don't you wax your foundations

That is one flimsy ass work station boss!👍

You are doing great, that's really good timing. Yesterday I was shock when I saw canola field start blooming already Southwesr of Killarney and I have a yard 2 miles away. I'm glad I drove around that area on my way back from Brandon for groceries.

Muy lindo trabajo 👏👍👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝

Enjoy the Lake

Hi All I have here in eastern part of Romania is the sunflower and after nothing except thorns and dust Dry step here , lush prairie there

That table looks very light and flimsy. Did you do a video about building it? That and the shaker box are great tools.

Super beekeeping ❤❤❤❤❤

Have had significantly more success and results with Randy's formic on pads with glycerine than formic pro! Huge difference.

Keep them coming

Здравствуйте я. Хочу купить такой же улики как у вас и купить у вас матка вы можете помочь

I got a blue screen on my work computer. I am thinking of driving up and working for you for the summer 😅

Thank you for sharing Ian! In the past I've had mixed results with formic. However the last few years I've covered the top half of the pad to slow the release down using the foil packaging and have been happy with the results using one or two pads. It slows and extends the release nicely. Nevertheless, your season is tight.

Larson Farms is having the same issue with moving dirt sand blasting the baby corn.

96% thats pretty darn good. My last take was only 65%. WInd and rain for 2 weeks didnt help

Hello from Turkey Ian. Love to watch your videos. I am also a small scale beekeeper. I just want to ask; in Turkey we only move bees when it’s dark. Because when you move the hives in the middle of the day, many bees will be in flight mode. Don’t you think that you are loosing some of forager population when you move your bees in daytime? I am wishing sunny days to you😊

Oh man, there’s nothing better than a ribeye from Charolais beef !

Your corn crop should recover from my experience. You may lose some stand and a few days of maturity but not worth replanting this late in the year. Sure hope the weather improves.

Carrie is sure good help. Did she go college learning about Bees ? Or learned from you ?

Bees in a field need something for orientation. Try putting a log or something near the hives. Bob binnie has a video on this. He puts his near the wood line.

You ever have problems with the cows flipping the boxes or rubbing on them?

“Pretty nice lookin nucs eh?” lol such a Canadian thing to say haha

A beautiful place you live in Ian!

Like seeing the cows watch you work😅

Always curious cattle! Lol by the time I get big enough to get that beautiful lift I’ll be too old and probably have to sell off! But I do love that thing and envy you while watching. We’re starting to pull boxes in 95-98 degree heat wave.

Someone told me yesterday "you're crazier than Ian in Canada. He too puts a rope line in the grass so he can line up his hives." I don't care.. what's wrong with being precise. For a beek is a plus. I just brought my last yard home and your flow is not even started... what would I do now until fall if not tests and experiments. Well I could go on vacation.. but my house already has one side into the sea. Maybe I'll visit you. It's not 40c there too ? 🥵😎 it can't be drier than here

The more I watch you work with your ezyloader…the higher it seems to climb on my wish list!

What mite strips are you using, Ian, I'm Australian & am keen to learn all about, how you treat your varroa, we don't know nothing about medicating varroa, yet, cheer's Keith ☺️.

7:12I also think that rock music will appease the bee gods. 😂

Nice Charolais cow's

What is your honey crop target?😁

Good thing there's not 24 hours of daylight, Ian, or you'd be a ghost!

Cows are high this year 😅

Karrie make them queens ?

Thanks for that

I am always a bit surprised when you are moving colonies that you don't seem to worry about the loss of the foragers that return to the hive to find it is no longer there! Maybe the sheer number of colonies you have to move in a limited time means that you cannot afford to wait until the foragers have returned.

Hey is that a queen that walks across the truck deck at 7:43???

Dostum merhaba ben türkiye'den yazıyorum harika bir iş yapıyorsun ama türkiyedeki arıcılıktan biraz faydalansan daha iyi olur, saf bal 🍯🍯🍯 yapman gerek sürekli şeker veriyorsun kovayla, hoşçakal kendine iyi bak

That evening picture was beautiful Its been crazy weather this year . It can only get better fr here on in !

I envy you for your farmer background. You have a handle on all the nectar producing plants and when they all will be producing, or in this case when they won't, which allows you to move around the countryside to maximize your utilization of each. My plant knowledge is very limited and I often wish I knew more about what is producing at what time of the summer. I did smell the basswood trees these last two mornings on my run, so I'm looking forward to that, if the rain will slow down.

Carrie and I drove past you, she did a double take, and muttered something, lol.

Making use of every hour of daylight... last three evenings I've been finishing off cutting the grass in the bee yards as it gets dark.

This year seems odd. I still need to pour the patties to them to keep them laying heavy but nectar is coming in decent..

Hey hey. Have a good one buddy. Take care.

I Formica pro is used, try treating them earlier when temperatures are cooler. I this method is not effective, start using Mite away strips. This method is not so toxic.

Looking forward of the results using the strips in the top box like this ❤

If interrupting the brood is how Formic kill's the mites, couldn't you just take out all the open brood.

I’d never used formic, but I always use oxalic acid during the flow when I need to kill mites. Hello from Argentina!

Hello! What is bearings size?

I have marked queens from 2022 (mutts) that are still performing and just made it through a MAQS treatment just fine and they have had a MAQS treatments every year (3rd time now at least). My thought is your single boxes are not giving the bees enough space to "get away" from the strongest fumes and the patties didn't help air flow either. For myself I'm usually treating this time of year and our flow is still on or about to end. I run all medium 8 frames so hive could have as many as 6 boxes on when treatment is applied - 2 strips between 2nd and 3rd box below the excluder. Heat temps will definitely kill the hive if you go above the temperature restriction for the upper level temperature. I also have screened bottom boards with inserts in so I can see what kind of mite drop I'm getting. Most mite drop happens within the first 48 hours. I run about 30 hives. I"m going to be sorry to see MAQS go (supposed to be discontinued). I think the Formic Pro formula is harder on the bees than MAQS - have used both. There is no way I'd ever be able to come up with two weeks of below 85F in our area during the summer months but I can get a window of 3-4 days below 85F for MAQS to get a treatment in. Weather and being able to fly is important too is my experience.