My Honey Yields
In the table below I record my honey yields and then compare them with the UK and South West averages. I have used the figures from the annual BBKA honey survey.
My Total Honey Yield (lbs) | My Honey Yield (lbs per hive) | UK Honey Yield (lbs per hive) | South West Honey Yield (lbs per hive) |
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2019 | ||||
2018 | 31lb (84 tubs of cut comb) | 15.5lb | 30lb | ?? |
2017 | 15lb approx. (31 cartons) | 2lb | 23.8 | 18 |
2016 | 3lb (8 Ross Rounds) | 1lb | 26 | 25.6 |
2015 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 21 | 16.7 |
2014 | 35 | 8.75 | 32.9 | 29.8 |
2013 | 10 | 5 | 24.7 | 22.3 |
2012 | 1 | 1 | 8.1 | 7.1 |
2011 | n/a | n/a | 29.4 | 29.5 |
Related Posts
- 2017 Harvest: “Cut Comb Honey Success“
- 2016 Harvest “What I Learnt From Making Ross Rounds” (this was my first year using RRs)
- 2015 Honey Yield
- 2014 Harvest: Honey Harvest 2014 – The Results
- 2013 Harvest: It’s a sticky business
- 2012 Harvest: The joys and guilt of harvesting honey
- How-To Guide On Harvesting Honey
Tnx for the interesting site and helpful blogs from a ‘local’ bee keeper. The blog.. on aggressive bees and ways of handling the situation is particularly helpful. The process of exchanging experiences of practical nature is always helpful especially when on the ‘learning curve’ .Keep up your site as I am sure there are others whose sanity can be helped!!! Regards Gordon at Tetbury.
I know what you mean about the extraction.i also planned some cut comb this year, but although I got plenty of honey( most of it still in a couple of small buckets as I haven’t finished jarring it up), most of the combs the bees chose to fill were not the unwired super thin ones but, unsurprisingly in retrospect, the drawn combs from last year. So no cut comb, but plenty of honey. 2 colonies, I’d guess 32lbs or so. My best yield yet, too. I’ve left over a super of honey for the bees, as I always do, and the season is not over, so there will be plenty for the bees.
Next year I’ll only give them the cut comb frames to start with.
This year I was also surprised by the fact that none of them swarmed, though I did press the matter a bit with my collected swarm from last summer by giving away a prolific but swarmy and extremely sticky queen to a friend who’d lost 2 colonies last winter, and forcing them to re-queen mid season.