Commercial Beekeeping: Your Time = $$

[@paulgroth5414]

Extremely helpful! Great insight, thankyou and make more!

[@Trinityoaksfarms]

I appreciate your videos. Good insights and content!

[@on5b416]

Commercial beekeeper here in Canada. I always find useful bits of either beekeeping or business info from your stuff. Keep up the good stuff

[@daltonrobinson253]

Great info!!

[@barkersbees]

Love the videos. I have started a business of beekeeping and helpful tips definitely help me out! I’ve enjoyed your videos and content!

[@robertsullivan2061]

yes it was helpfull!!

[@dcsblessedbees]

Step by step. Looks like you upgraded your gravel pad, takes a lot of gravel for big trucks. My family are truckers and I'd recommend ya widen that narrow area of your drive, still doesn't look wide enough there for opses. 😂You are not going to enjoy flying back and forth. People are going to end up annoy you, have fun dealing with people.🤣 Have a great day Kevin.

[@tonyjenkins272]

Great information thanks !

[@TallPaul1288]

Have you covered, where to start looking for a pollination contract for out of area sideliners to newly commercial guys? If so what video was that?

[@Hive5Bees]

I haven’t but really appreciate the idea - we’ll do it in the future 👍🏽

[@barkersbees]

Do you have a video of your story of starting out to what you have become now in the beekeeping world? If you do I would love to see it! I wanna know what your goals were when you first started, I wanna know if you exceeded them.. did you plan on having as many colonies as you do now when you first started or did it just grow as you grew?

[@Hive5Bees]

Great questions and will do! Haven’t done a video on that yet

[@barkersbees]

@@Hive5Bees you should do a video! Just simple one of what you wanted when you started out and what changed as you grew. Like I’m stating and I’m up to 30 colonies and I thought that was gonna be my goal. Now my goal is 50.. but once I hit 50 will my goal be70? And so on . I want to buy my equipment and build my bees and grow . I’m in that state hobbits and sideline.. I want to be in the sideline bad but not sure if that will be enough for me . Hope my questions make sense..

[@philhofland5501]

Nice shop. and pad. it's all only time and money. and a lot of decision making. The battle over what to spend our limited resources on and what are true necessities is a moving target. Boy is it. One of these days we can split the costs on a small plane. you can land next to your truck down here. . I hoped to do similarly for over 25 years. Fortunatly life threw other blessings on my lap which made the decision to fly ( personally) back and forth to bees something thats probably not going to occur in my lifetime. The choice to not do so and invest the $ in other more profitable ventures ( family) is not one I regret. The older I get the more I realize we are only temporary stewards of all we are blessed with. Be that a lot, little, or in between. Utilizing them all prudently each and every day is a challenge at best. one thing about being in the bees. adversity brings character and wiser decision making. MOST OF THE TIME.

[@Hive5Bees]

To anyone reading these comments - this ☝🏽☝🏽 is the voice of wisdom and experience is life and commercial beekeeping. Thank you Phil

[@VaderSpade]

Do you use a broker for the almonds?

[@Hive5Bees]

Yes but be careful who you choose … reference are definitely important and then sticking with a company/broker that treats you fairly

[@VaderSpade]

My broker never inspected the hives last year and as we all know it was a rough year. The grower was spraying after every storm (necessary evil) and I simply ask if they were using a surfactant as they were spraying during flight time and dead bees were piling up in front of my hives. I had a honest fear that if too many bees were killed and then the hives were inspected I would not get paid. I was feeding weekly and videoed everything to show that the hives were indeed strong. Long story short the broker dumped me saying I stirred too much chit just asking about the spray. I believe he let the grower down by not inspecting.

[@3Beehivesto300]

You need to change the name of your channel to bee 🐝 wise…