Franz Obendorfer holds a master degree and runs a professional organic beekeeping business based in Wilfersdorf near Mistelbach in Lower Austria. Robert Beck also runs a certified organic beekeeping business in Gerasdorf near Vienna. In both farms, we manage a total of about 250-300 bee colonies.
In addition, we are intensively engaged in breeding, with our focus on carniolan pure breeding of the 6 lines of the strain Sklenar. Since we have worked closely together for many years, the step towards cooperation as a breeding cooperation was obvious. By pooling our work and infrastructure, there are many benefits for our customers. One of the most important points is the significantly larger selection base by the bee colonies of two farms. Of course we can handle bigger production capacities and the resulting logistics. In recent years we have been able to send our queens to customers from more than 15 countries.
Franz Obendorfer is educated skilled worker and also owns a masters degree in beekeeping. Robert Beck is on his way to the masters degree in beekeeping. So we have a profound knowledge about bees. The operation is managed full time - in peak times 7 days a week. Not just as hobbiests. This is very important especially for managing the logistic of queen shippments professionally.
Only with a reasonable quantity of managed hives you can do a rational selection. With our two companies we take care of up to 300 colonies for our honeyproduction. This is a great precondition to run significant performance tests and make steps forward in bee breeding.
We live and work in the former domain of Guido Sklenar. He even lived a couple of years in our hometown. One of our operating sites is located only 7 kilometers away from the famous mating station Hirschgrund. Our queen genetics come from beekeeping master Schleining, more or less the breeding descendant of Sklenar.