This has probably been posted before, but I found it interesting.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvmhoney.pdf (http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvmhoney.pdf)
I guess I cannot complain too much. My honey production was down but according to this report, FL production was zero.
Jim
Aw. No report issued for my state. Why would that bee?
Do you have any commercial beeks in your state or any that come there to produce honkey? You may not.
Jim
Quote from: sawdstmakr on October 18, 2015, 08:11:30 AM
Do you have any commercial beeks in your state or any that come there to produce honkey? You may not.
Jim
Was that a racial slur??? Just kidding. I chuckled when I saw this. Hit me right, for some reason. I don't even know if that is the way you spell it. Anyway...
The report shows an 8-ounce jar of honey selling for $8 in the Raleigh, NC Farmers Market. I'm selling 1# jars for $8. Hmmm.
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Just a typo.
A dollar an ounce. That is pretty good. My wife fought me at $16 a pint, ended up selling for $11 a pint. That was because we only collected 250 pounds of honey. We were at $8 a pint last year.
Jim
Quote from: sawdstmakr on October 18, 2015, 08:11:30 AM
Do you have any commercial beeks in your state or any that come there to produce honkey? You may not.
Jim
Yes, I've seen commercial hives here from out of state and also MT keepers. I've read that MT is actually a big honey producing state. Plus, the U of M bee program is well known, right? Why there's no report, idk. Maybe someone missed a deadline. lol
I watched a you tube video with 628dirtrooster. He went to a spot where the commercial beeks had a yard. They of course moved on. My take is they load up the bees during the daylight hours. Some of the forgers came home to no home. The size of the bees hanging from the trees was amazing. He filled several, and I mean several deep supers with bees. He then introduced queens to them and had a ton of hives. 628dirtrooser is a cool dude to follow. Good sense of humor and family friendly videos.
Quote from: GSF on October 22, 2015, 07:44:56 AM
I watched a you tube video with 628dirtrooster. He went to a spot where the commercial beeks had a yard. They of course moved on. My take is they load up the bees during the daylight hours. Some of the forgers came home to no home. The size of the bees hanging from the trees was amazing. He filled several, and I mean several deep supers with bees. He then introduced queens to them and had a ton of hives. 628dirtrooser is a cool dude to follow. Good sense of humor and family friendly videos.
That is a standard practice for commercial beeks. They have so many bees, to them it isn't worth it to wait till everyone is home to move. You could see 20 or 30 pound "swarms" of foragers hanging in a tree.
He shook this one and it was amazing at the bees.
Gary,
Can you ad the link to the video?
I collected 2 nucs from the Commercial beeks, next to my farm, when they left. Neither one produced a queen from the frames I added. Next time I will need to have queens ready. Field bees are not good at producing royal jelly to make queens.
Jim
I think that this is the video that they are talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xJFFO9dDEmY#t=15
That's it!
That is pretty awsome.
Jim