1. got to agree steve pesticides insecticides, storage etc. are the new fangled mixes etc. any good? is darkness actually interfering with nature affecting the birds natural compass? 2. BOP is a major problem and till the problem affects the money men nothing will be done 3.clashing imo is the problem along with too many under trained correctly educated yb's going in the baskets 4. many of these continental strains are only sprinters because thats all the breeder races lets face it VR'S have bricoux and how many more have distance lines in them in them so why can't they fly any distance and to be honest there's not man YB races you would class as real stamina sappers