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>· 125,000 beekeepers--located in every state
>· 3.03 million colonies--operated by owners of five or more colonies
>· Typical commercial operation--1500-2500 colonies
>· About 600 beekeepers operate 1,000 or more colonies each; as a group these produce 75% of the U.S. honey crop
The local bee club has a few people with only two hives and a couple with 50. Due to dead outs these days keeping one hive is not very practical. As a very rough guess I would estimate five hives per hobbyist beekeeper based on the people I know. So, if there are 120,000 hobbyist beekeepers with five hives each that makes 600,000 hobby hives or about 20% of the total hives in the US. We could argue about the 120,000 and five hives per person, but no matter how I push the numbers I find hobbyists have well over 1% of the total hives.
Dick
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