Hungarian beekeepers are in trouble: This could end very badly

At the end of the summer of 2023, farmers planted canola in few places in the country. In the autumn after emergence, some fields developed very poorly. The majority of beekeepers did not migrate to canola. For those whose bees reached the rapeseed field, they reported a medium yield - wrote MÁSZ. The spring weather caused a serious dilemma several times, should we go or not to go to the acacia flowering. Colleagues who have been beekeeping for forty or fifty years have not seen anything similar to what happened this year. The acacia flower was frozen several times from bud break to flowering. In previous years, beekeepers experienced that frost causes serious damage to the process of nectar formation, but this year it turned out differently. Farmers sowed a lot of sunflowers this year, which can be seen at the borders of almost every village. The sunflower developed very nicely during the year, it received more rainfall several times, and now, during flowering, there are hot ...