Not much honey this harvest

[papabear]

One hive and I harvested 5gal from two deep supers. Last year this hive gave me 11gals with the same amount of deeps. What makes all the difference?

[Kathyp]

weather.  neighbors mowing fields down.  hive size/health. 

i had 3 years that were crappy and it looks like this year will be good.  i thought it was going to be bad because of all the rain we had in spring.  lost almost all of the early spring nectar flow, but the rain brought on a massive early summer flow.

some years are like that.....

[harvey]

I haven't gotten any surplus yet this year but have my fingers crossed that when the goldenrod comes on I will get some.  They are hitting the thistly real hard right now but looks like that will mostly be for them.

[AllenF]

I bet the wax was drawn out twice as thick last year in the frames.