A large packer in our area is inching the price down by always keeping the
low price on the shelf. He is in no hurry to reach the price level of before
the price hike.

he brags he has made enough money to buy a new packing line by keeping the
price up and buying low.

He is getting all the honey he wants in the seventy  cent per pound range
and as Mike says the store price is still at close to the price honey was
when selling in the drums at the buck fifty price.

Actually keeping store honey at todays levels helps most beekeepers but
eventually the foreign honey packers will try and force the U.S. honey
sellers out of the market place as history always repeats itself "unless we
learn from past mistakes".

Bob

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