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Article: There's money in honey.(bee culture)(Brief Article)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Honey production in the U.S. took a nose-dive in 1995 due to infestations of two kinds of parasitic mites which killed almost all wild honeybees and decimated many cultivated hives.
Adding to this is the arrival of African killer bees in the southwestern US. California, which is one of the leading bee states, may suffer severely from these. The other leading bee states are North and South Dakota and Florida.
The upside to this is the lack of wild honeybees has created a large demand for pollination of crops. Locally, rental charges run from $30-$50 per hive per crop, and in many locations placing them alongside another crop later in the year is possible. ...