>  The beekeeper did not get paid until after the crop was in and then
> not the agreed price but what the grower wanted to pay.

Years back, beekeepers in Alberta -- before leafcutters -- were paid a
portion of the alfalfa seed their bees set.  In such a case, payment comes
later.  When we pollinated, we got a 50% advance months before the
pollination, then a portion around the time the bees were set, then the
balance at year end.  We were dealing with large multi-national seed
companies.

In other situations, a beekeeper I know in BC, where some of the small
growers are inclined to reneg or renegotiate after the job is done, collects
his accounts when the bees are in the crop and working, but before the
pollination is complete.   That way, he can just pull them out early -- or
suggest he might -- if the owner balks.

allen
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