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2026 harvest totals — how did your crop compare to last year? Regional roundup

Extractor's clean, jars are filling, so it's time for the annual damage report. Post your region, rough average per production hive, versus last year, and what the flow did. I'll start: Cork, Ireland — 18 kg per hive average across nine production colonies, down from about 24 kg last year. The spring was actually decent and the clover came good, but the blackberry flow — normally our banker — got cut short by that relentlessly wet July. Two solid weeks of flying weather less than last year, and it shows in the supers. On the bright side, quality is lovely and moisture came in at 17% despite the damp, which frankly surprised me. Curious especially whether the wet July hit everyone in the maritime northwest or just us, and how the continental crowd's heat played out. Southern hemisphere folks — feel free to lodge last season's numbers, or just lurk smugly with your winter tea.
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MayaBees · Aug 23, 2026
Oregon: up! About 60 lbs per hive average, best of my five years. Blackberry went long and strong — we got the June rain to keep it juicing and then dry weeks for flying. Extracted in two rounds. Last year was 45ish, so I'm not complaining about anything except my back.
muglabalci · Aug 23, 2026
Muğla: thyme honey down maybe a third on last year, the drought burned the flow short. But for us the main event is still ahead — the pine honeydew season is just starting and the basra beetle populations look healthy, so the year's verdict waits until autumn. Ask me again in October before you pity me.
LavenderSophie · Aug 23, 2026
Provence: average year, maybe a touch under. Lavender finished earlier than usual in the heat — good intensity while it lasted but a shorter window. Around 25 kg per hive. The rosemary spring crop is what saved the total. CorkBeeRon your wet July reached us as three glorious cool days that the bees and I both appreciated.
HokkaidoHachi · Aug 24, 2026
Hokkaido: my best year yet — the linden (shina) flow in July was extraordinary, calm warm weeks exactly when it counted. Just over 30 kg per hive from my four. Last year a typhoon-remnant washed out the same fortnight, so I'm aware this is the coin landing heads. It all goes so fast — a season decided in twenty days.
CorkBeeRon · Aug 24, 2026
Great spread — HokkaidoHachi's 'a season decided in twenty days' is the truest sentence on this forum all month. Provisional pattern from the thread: maritime northwest down on rain, Pacific coasts up, Mediterranean mixed and drought-clipped, muglabalci playing his autumn wildcard as usual. Keep them coming, I'll tally properly once the stragglers extract.
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