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It's got so ridiculous nowadays I'm surprised no-ones trying to push it.
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It's got so ridiculous nowadays I'm surprised no-ones trying to push it.
Have you not noticed that some versions of TBHs are actually like inverted pyramids in cross-section? I think where they have gone wrong is that cross-section isn't enough, it has to be the full 3D object. And the right way up. For me, that explains why some of the main proponents have such trouble with losing hives due to Varroa, they didn't get the shape quite right.Originally Posted by Nellie
Bottom Bar Hives. Got to be the way forward.
The magazine is the shop window for SBA but not responsible for low membership numbers
If the SBA was the right package for beekeepers in Scotland they would join
What are the benefits ?
well there's insurance then there's the magazine
For me that's about it
The vast majority of the SBA funds is spent on the Mag
The production costs of the SBA magazine are probably higher than Beecraft per issue
If the poll results are anything to go by then there are either no SBA members on this forum or they don't care
When I suggest to people they might like to join the SBA they just say why??
As well as the Insurance and the magazine what about the education, tour speakers, annual conference, annual honey show plus Royal Highland Show and recently the SBA/BIBBA bee breeding course and morphometry day
The thread is getting dangerously near to this.
Maybe the SBA needs to provide wine and aqueducts for the membership
You guys are right I think there isn't a problem at all it's all in my mind
Me and the two people who voted in the poll anyway.
But the SBA can't claim to represent Scottish bee keepers just a small proportion of them
The much vaunted survey of Scottish beekeepers which was printed twice in the Scottish Beekeeper and once in Beecraft took 10% of SBA membership into account.
The membership I think is about 20% of actual beekeepers
So the survey included only 2% of Scottish Beekeepers
I would say statistically unreliable at best
I'll probably be saving the £25 from now on as well
Don't laugh
The Scottish Nationalist won the Election with the same campaign
Indecision stopped me from voting. Until every beekeeper signs up there is possible problem. The organisation just has to make a good job of selling itself and making sure that it is doing the right things. If someone could tell me whether the SBA has a higher or lower proportion of Scottish beekeepers in its membership than equivalent organisations elsewhere then it might be clearer if the SBA is attracting too few members.
It was carefully designed by professional statisticians and deliberately sought a stratified sample in the best way they could manage. No protocol is perfect of course.
The usual assumption is that about half of beekeepers are members. Do you really think that is so wrong? I just don't know. I do know however that if a political party wins an election so handsomely, and while currently in power, they must be doing something the electorate approve of.
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