Hi Pete and all

300 colonies at 150 # each yields 45,000 # honey.  If sold retail at  
$5/# or $11/kg =  $225, 000.  Hardly hobby or sideline.  I realize  
that my figures are gross receipts with all 300 hives producing close  
to average and all honey sold directly to consumers.  This also  
assumes that the beekeeper produces no comb honey, pollen, propolis,  
fancy  containers of special honey, nucs, hives nor queens for sale.   
USA must be much bigger than I thought if all beekeepers with 50  
colonies or less had backyards big enough for 50 colonies


Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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