Recently purchased a pallet of Ambrsoia syrup ( 60 x 12.5kg) jerry cans for association and members for £850 delivered, worked out £14.17 per can.
Bulk syrup
Recently purchased a pallet of Ambrsoia syrup ( 60 x 12.5kg) jerry cans for association and members for £850 delivered, worked out £14.17 per can.
Hi Neils
On the original premise of "ask me anything"
Have you heard much about allergy to oil seed rape?
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...d-rape-allergy
this is from 1990 and makes reference to a study done on my own doorstep I clipped a couple of bits
"During the 1989 flowering season, an epidemiological study was carried out in the village of Bowriefauld near Letham, in Angus. Angus district council, to its great credit, funded that study in response to allegations of public health nuisance. Eighty-five adults and 40 children were studied, and medical information obtained before, during and after the flowering season—using questionnaires, diary cards and standard skin and blood tests, along with the monitoring of pollen counts, wind-speed direction, temperatures and pollen collected by the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie."....
46 per cent. of the study population reported symptoms at the time when oil seed rape pollen counts were high and when no other pollens were present. The culprit is clear. Half of those individuals confirmed positive allergy tests. Allergy skin testing revealed that reactivity increased from 5 per cent. before the flowering season to 38 per cent. after the season. That is a massive rise compared to the 20 per cent. sensitivity normally shown for most allergic substances."
Goodness, this was 24 years ago. Almost all of the staff involved have retired or moved on. I wasn't involved at the time but do have experience of pollen movement in oilseed rape and it is very sensitive to environmental conditions. A dry soil when the rape is in full flower and the pollen gets airborne. Damp weather, as we seem to have had in recent years, and little of it does so.
Perhaps this may be an issue that has gone away but could recur?
You're making me nervous, though, with all that talk in Hansard of collaboration with what was the SCRI and the Medical School at Ninewells
Hi gavin
It's something that seems to have been a worry at the time.
But it also shows two things
1) the public health issue would seem to be less important then than the crop value
2) rape was not popular except with farmers
I expect the varieties grown now have addressed some of the early issues
I was surprised to read of fields being treated with metaldehyde to keep slugs off rape surely that can't be allowed
Apparently it is allowed http://www.agrii.co.uk/blog/2012/09/...rol-challenge/
Last edited by The Drone Ranger; 14-04-2013 at 11:03 AM. Reason: slug pellets are allowed
There was also some concern that OSR pollen was causing problems for horses and was a possible cause of head-shaking. The stuff certainly makes me sneeze so very glad there's none here!
Ask me anything: Bees
Playing catch upmy bees are bucketing pollen in before 9am this morning and in huge numbers!
Typical I have other things to do(pre booked) when I should be inspecting the bees and piling on the supers!
WW
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My Beecraft subscription has run out at a time when the magazine has just hit a new low
Can you suggest an alternative ?
Ask me anything: Bees
Scottish Beekeeper.
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What - you mean you've been missing out on the joys of the letters page in the SBA mag DR?!!
Ah !, yes, well, apparently when you leave SBA you stop getting the magazine (my knowledge of GM crops has suffered badly as a result)Originally Posted by gavin
I was thinking of doing a U turn and re-joining but ,and I happy to be corrected here, I would have to cough up a full subscription then again in January only 6 months later-- so might as well leave it till then
How about Bee Culture or Beekeepers Quarterly -- anybody get them
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