At first glance that sound like a good way to go broke. I spend more that 200 on mites, beetles, sugar, foundation, boxes and frames. At some point you have to hire someone and ship bees...
But there are more than just almonds. I had a flat bed driver bring me some stuff to instal on a job a couple months ago in Texas. We got to talking bees, as he was a bee hauler primarily. He was just about to start hauling bees to the almonds, then the whatever patch, then the blueberries, then the something else. So, $200/hive every month and a half might turn a profit if you sell honey and some wax.
You can?t pollinate 12 months out of the year and now I need a forklift and a truck with a crane lift...but everything is cheaper in bulk, right?
So is pollinating the income and honey is the gravy, or is honey the income and pollination the gravy? Or don you need both?
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