Hows your fall?

[Perry]

Answered on another thread, but you should be OK Jen. With the bees not being able to fly they should take the syrup quicker.

[GLOCK]

I had a great fall flow . Golden rod honey every where and all 32 hives are heavy for winter . I did have to feed a few nuc's  but only like 4 total and not for long.  Out of the five year's I have at beekeeping I think this has been my best.
We had a flow all year long it never got drouthy so the hive's made a lot of honey and swarms. Hope we have a mild winter .

[Bakersdozen]

Lazy, same conditions here.  My country bees sit next to a field that was planted with soybeans this year.  They didn't bring in hardly anything.  I thought they liked to work soybeans.  One hive almost starved to death before I caught it and the others are struggling.  Feed, feed, feed.  My city bees fared a little better.  I did pull some honey last week, but not much. 

[Gypsi]

hot hot hot dry dry dry feed feed feed.  2 inches of rain have caused a minor flow and a few days without running a sprinkler. Tomorrow I drain the tilapia pond onto the garden and move tilapia into the greenhouse

[rodmaker]

  Lets see. My fall has been hot and dry so far. I have five strong hives at the out yard and one that decided to swarm last week and i missed it. The home yard has six very strong with plenty of stores and five that i am feeding. This has been a tough year due to the drought and it is forcast to be another below normal rainfall year. This weather has the bees doing strange things some hives built up quick and then the queens just slowed down while others built up and just kept going and it is these hives i am having to feed.

[efmesch]

Rodmaker, you can put as much trust in those long term weather forecasts (.." it is forcast to be another below normal rainfall year") as you can in a divining rod. 
Forget those forecasts and give at least as much faith in the power of prayer.

[rodmaker]

Efmesch  I do trust more in the God i serve and depend on him to supply my needs. Consider the sparrow. The good thing about this drought is maybe we will work on this out dated water system we have in California last water project was in the sixties for nineteen million people and now we have around thirty two million and we are now farming about a million more acres then in the sixties.