This year is much more favourable than last year. It was more of a normal year in terms of temperature, snowfall, and moisture levels. We can't come to a final conclusion yet, but to date more than 70% of all the corn has been planted in Ontario. We have had no major incidents reported to date. We have had a few minor ones, which are being looked at right now, but they are nowhere close to the scale we saw last year. So I am very hopeful that this will be a normal year with respect to both corn planting and bee health in terms of corn dust-off.
On May 9th, 2013. See this statement in context.