Don't get me wrong. I believe in funding! I believe that businesses/charities/individuals should get help for things which benefit the greater good and even make them some profit into the bargain. There's nothing wrong with that. And if bee farmers are doing things which society gets a benefit from then they should get help if they need it. But as far as I can see they or most of them are not. If they were to put subsidy money not into importing replacement stocks/queens but into a long term sustainable future for themselves and for Scotland's bees I'd think better of them. But no what the country really needs is an endless supply of cheap OSR honey - NOT!