Has there ever been any research on using cotton seed meal for protein supplement for bees? The analysis is in the ballpark but does it work?
I have talked some beekeepers about cottonseed meal and they had never thought about this. One beek asked me why I thought about using CSM as bee feed. When I was much younger I had cattle and fed CSM mixed with minerals and salt. The bees flocked to that cattle supplement. I kept looking on the internet and found an article from Jan 1917 in the Minnesota Bee culture periodical That is very interesting, some cattlemen did not like the bees from a neighbor Beek and they poisoned the bees. There is some very interesting and enlightening articles of how we "usta" do it. Paus