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Inferior when compared to what? Given the range of honey bees and the amount of OSR grown in this country, I would have thought that non-brassica honey would be hard to achieve during the spring months.
We are surrounded by OSR and have a beehive in the middle of our 50-odd fruit trees, and we have certainly not noticed a problem with pollination. I think it is true to say that many species of insect pollinate fruit trees, and fruit set is determined by many factors, of which the occurance of frost at flowering time is probably the most important. If my memory serves me right there was a late frost last spring, here in East Anglia, and the late flowerers were affected
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