Extracting Honey From 80,000 Hives | Tour of Adee Honey Farms

[@chuckholt9860]

I am a truck driver who used to haul honey from a warehouse in New Jersey to Ohio. The loads were very heavy and tricky to know where to set your tandems. Your facility and process is impressive!

[@Catseye189]

All the flowers and bees that went into that production, we thank you!

[@EverybodysSenator4US]

I was lucky enough to get a personal tour by Mr. Adee of the entire Bruce location and think back to it often. I am super pleased they made this video. And I thank him and his family for the wonderful tour several years ago. They are the largest Beekeepers in America.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

THEIR HONEST IS JUST A CHEAP MASS PRODUCED MECHANICALLY PROCESSED HONEY. 😣😤😤😥

[@Ghhyuttgg]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 as opposed to what?

[@Konarcoffee]

@@Ghhyuttgg The same process but you take out every mixer/separator/etc. machine that you see in this video. Doing things at such mass scale 100% effects the final product

[@rexrovig9299]

As a resident of Bruce of many years ago it is of interest to me to see that the Bee industry is an up and going business in the area.

[@dylanbenz7724]

My grandpa has worked for Adee Honey Farms since he was 16 years old. He’s 83 now. Still works hahaha. I’ve gotten so much of this honey over the years. It’s great!

[@MrTimjd123]

Remember this. No bees. No food. No food. No people. Bees are angels and need to be loved and protected.

[@davediamond7228]

it appears bees are slave labor ...

[@mattstead387]

Worked it out based on 80000 hives and average Hive producing 60lb of honey the total wholesale value of that honey each year is $32million.

[@beebop9808]

@ $2.60 avg wholesale price US/lb, that'd be a little closer to $12.5 M.

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Each hive 60 lb?. More like 6 lbs.

[@beebop9808]

@@JamesJones-cx5pk lol That's pretty pitiful. Adee's bread and butter is pollination services, honey is a byproduct. I'm sure they get on some crops that don't yield much honey though, like almonds.... but when you're cashing in $125 bucks a hive or so for a couple of weeks who cares how much honey they make.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

@@beebop9808 You're clueless. You= 😳😳they sell , the wax= 💰💰💰the pollen è 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰wax is super pricey!

[@jeffmaster2306]

@@JamesJones-cx5pk you clearly don’t have bees some good hives can give more than 100lbs

[@VictorFursov]

Thank you for interesting video about beekeeping industry and honey bees. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bee lovers, honey lovers and insect lovers!

[@628DirtRooster]

Very nice tour video. I interviewed Richard Adee in their Mississippi queen rearing yard several years back but never got around to editing the footage.

[@isaacmartinez2102]

Id like to see footage of Adees Mississippi location.

[@628DirtRooster]

@@isaacmartinez2102 I'll try to get that edited this season.

[@la9679]

I used to work for the adee family, great people great company.😊

[@СветланаАртюшкевич]

Could you help me, please, what frames are used, can`t identify them unfortunately

[@brettdean6182]

Hi from Australia. I'm a queen bee breeder and harvest honey as well but only small scale. Love the set up you have for your extraction room. Keep up the great work.

[@danielcollins9628]

Hey I'm an aspiring queen bee breeder do u have any tips for North Queensland

[@ak-jx1pm]

Make the bees have sex

[@mynsal]

My hometown is Bruce SD and my mothers house 🏡 is right across the street now currently bought by. My baby sister Julie and John

[@nalixl]

That was something i wanted to see for a long time. Always been curious how something like that works at scale. Anyway, is there any chance we'll see a video of the hives where this honey is harvested from?

[@susanfulce764]

So impressive. Thank you for this virtual field trip!

[@PremierBeeProducts]

Thanks for watching, Susan!

[@russellkoopman3004]

I got my college degree from Brookings SD and went by Bruce many times and never knew there was such an impressive bee operation there. I wish I would have stopped in, maybe I could have gotten a summer job there. LOL

[@gerardjohnson2106]

AMAZING. Their whole operation is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing

[@PremierBeeProducts]

Thanks for watching, Gerard!

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

IT'S A MASS PRODUCED MECHANICAL PRODUCTION FACTORY. THE BEST HONEY IS SMALL BATCH ORGANICS RAW HONEY. THE BEES🐝🐝THAT" MAKE THIS HONEY HERE ARE FED WHITE REFINED SUGAR=!😣😣😤😧😧

[@kennyirish5021]

Crazy big work force, Glad they are putting that many people to work. Wow

[@BradCampbellmn]

Most of the workers are H2A workers from other countries

[@afterburner3999]

Nice System i only had a 24 frame xtrcta and hand operated frame loader. No wax seperata just let it float on top in big tank b4 draining honey into drums then washed wax out after 3 days extracting 8 44s in one day alone.

[@gwenyngruffydd]

I really enjoyed this video! Great work! Big thumbs up from me all the way from Wales in the UK 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Q..J..]

No one explained what happened to the bees who worked so hard to make that honey. What happened to them?

[@id10t98]

They were given several weeks off to vacation in Italy, Monaco and the south of France before needing to return to work.

[@nailadee]

Pretty sure they were moved to the empty hives

[@jamesdeclan7538]

Worker bees fill these things in the video called 'supers' and queen excluders, so the bees fill it up with honey, and once full, the bees leave that section of the hive alone, usually only a couple stragglers will be in it but otherwise none.

[@Chef2667]

What you see here are just extentions . Bees stays in the main hive to serve the queen.

[@airheartforge1796]

. . Like You and Me . . They Die . . .

[@Will-ol9lp]

So where are all the honey bees ???

[@achosenone44]

the sickos demonic fallen angels killed them !!! not deceiving me

[@Nick_865]

Tell us you know nothing about beekeeping….without telling us you know nothing about beekeeping

[@MECowgo]

That was pretty cool but I can't help thinking what would happen if a forklift ran into one of those walls of stacked honey barrels. A tsunami of honey.

[@kleebgaming5209]

Yeah this plant is absolutely crawling with OSHA violations. Stacking barrels like that, full or empty, is an instant citation. 105 degree F work environment, un-guarded chain drives, lack of hearing protection, bad forklift discipline, the list goes on. They should really take down this video or they're asking for a surprise visit if they haven't already.

[@vivianhart7152]

How can the bees produce honey without flowers?

[@papasgrogreens9054]

So AMAZING!!! Thank you guys, I love honey! 🤤

[@kennethdrovdal1082]

Impressive. Top notch from in the door to out and continued success to you and your crew. I've always considered Watertown home no matter my address.

[@woke1340]

Very interesting! I’d love to see the hives they have!

[@nectardocerrado]

Congratulations, hugs.

[@elricthebald]

As a mead homebrewer it's very interesting to see how my main ingredient is processed on a large scale. 👍 "Obey the bees." 🐝

[@alexarce8547]

Hello, greetings, I am Alejandro Arce, I am a Mexican beekeeper with 28 years of experience. I am looking for a job opportunity in a bee farm. I appreciate any information. My mother tongue is Spanish. Thank you very much.

[@tawilk]

wondering since they're not checking for amount of capped cells, how do they prevent fermentation when they're just blindly shuffling each frame in?

[@3eqab]

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

[@Mike-lu1pt]

looks so dirty and the barrels are painted red on the inside?

[@alisonyahna8041]

How do you control? Small hive beetle in the hot room?

[@theophiluseshun771]

I am from Ghana... Please can I extract from the Queen hive??? Because it contains a lot of honey...

[@brianschrombeck7313]

Awesome setup! Just a backyard Beek here. Hey I noticed the sound mix is really uneven. I had to turn it down to 1 and it was still too loud. Just a thought. I'm also a sound engineer lol.

[@infinity_CNC]

My thoughts exactly. Why do content creators rarely get this right?!

[@daleolson3506]

The. Music sucks

[@cw7784]

It looks like the guy that was told to to get a barrell was like nah go get that other guy to do it @ 08:12 lmbo

[@staudtj1]

Is Honey still on the list of U.S. Govt. Commodities, available to Schools and Prisons?

[@oceanic8424]

Where do the bees hangout during the extraction process? Is the frame completely emptied in the extraction process?

[@suryakantbrewr]

In heaven ... 🤣🤣🤣

[@3Beehivesto300]

What is the round thing the pallet is placed on at the extraction line?

[@azpcox]

Makes their job easier by raising and lowering based on the frames they have left. I imagine with as many boxes to process, bending over for even a small amount would build up into major back pain.

[@DoubleUA]

Why do you have to heat, why not just extract honey after slicing the layers. Is it to flow better or safer?

[@blaahster]

Wow!

[@bogey19018]

What does a barrel go for?

[@gcb6185]

How do you control moth infestation in the bee boxes?

[@halfnelson6115]

Is Nature Nates real honey or does it have sugar syrup mixed in?

[@beebop9808]

Adee is legit. They don't pack that crap.

[@halfnelson6115]

@@beebop9808 I asked about Nature Nates. Not Adees.

[@satyanarayankankipati3633]

Thank you. Very informative video. From India.

[@BlackWit11]

So just one question..... where are all the bees?

[@JimDean002]

Back on the farms in the hives. They don't take the entire hive down just the parts filled with honey. They leave the rest for the bees and add new empty slats for them to fill

[@penelopelgoss2520]

Where do you get your barrels? Used? Reused? New?

[@EMBL2011]

My parents just got back from visiting a honey farm. They have 2500 hives and being located in the Canadian prairies are able to get double the honey from each hive. The make a profit of $900,000 each year 😱 I want to be a honey bee farmer now. 💰 Plus I love honey 😋 and raw organic honey has so many health benefits.

[@SuperSaltydog77]

you're right, raw honey does have many health benefits. But you still have to be careful as honey is sugar, and to much sugar is not healthy

[@gunawan8989]

Lovely experience...❤

[@HiMarsPewPew]

That’s a lot of honey 🍯 money 💰

[@rickpawl]

It really would’ve been nice to see the extraction process and have that explained, but it was completely left out.

[@claraeditacandini9001]

how do they differentiate honeycomb filled with honey and baby bees? no baby bees are killed in this process right?

[@randallmarsh1187]

They make a screen called a Queen Excluder that has holes too small for the queen to get through. Therefor she can't get in those supers and lay eggs ruining the honey.

[@jonesy4588]

after you take your honey up what do you do to ruin it , I have never bought any honey that was good to eat but from 1 person , and he did nothing to his honey but strain it and put it in a glass jar straight from the hive .

[@robertzalenski4512]

WOW ! I am so surprised thete aren't a bazillion bees in the extraction room.

[@karlburt01]

Your centrifuges times seem twice as long to spin, Ever considered Beetec nz centrifuges? Smaller units but i could see 4 per station would half your time and near dry.

[@NinjaForHire]

Its crazy how we can scale just about anything

[@DJSTEWS]

Imagine a earthquake and aftermath of honey everywhere 😂

[@noobishsite]

This was a surprise.... i thought honey house was a completely different house with lots of red lights and beds

[@OregonCrow]

Nice video, love the bee's! Subbed

[@mikefrench4787]

Very impressive

[@floridagoods]

How can you have 485,000 views with only 5,000 subscribers???

[@jovanvujovic3932]

👍, riječi su suvišne

[@redwood1957]

Is this non pasteurized honey? Thank you

[@rockvillemike6062]

How do the bees feel about you taking all their honey?

[@deanguando1335]

Quite an operation.

[@raywyman8717]

How do they pollinate all of those fives that’s a question

[@beegoodlife]

Nice !

[@elbrusibrahimov9261]

👍👍👍

[@johnl2727]

This kind of ruined my head in the sand vision of bee hives and honey driving down a road seeing five or six white hive boxes on a corner of some farm.

[@shakespearetiger800XR]

What happened to all the bees? You showed the empty hives. But NO bees.

[@stephenfanthorpe2708]

Imagine separating wax to blend it in to separate it again , beyond me

[@garyclarke8862]

What do you sell a barrel of honey for

[@jt-bw6qd]

Find this to be stunning! Gagagagaga

[@Surga_myth_dewa_real]

HONEY : Natural liquid glucose,,(plantic glucose harvest by honey bee)

[@MartinGrenfell-q3w]

Where do the Bees go when their hives are in the factory.?🤔

[@lytken]

you really need a better lens when filming the focus here if so bad and all over the place but a good info film

[@BrianGLee-bc7hj]

Honey made a relative a wealthy man

[@BrianGLee-bc7hj]

In Michigan

[@НикК-ч4м]

Red paint painting barrel inside? Why it's not stainless steel ?

[@Nick_865]

😂 you think food grade drums are all SS? Lol

[@tymz-r-achangin]

The essence of the fruit from the garden of Eden is probably the only thing keeping them from getting down into their birthday suits in that 105 degree work area .... well that and the law suits that would follow

[@dewservices]

How much for a barrell of honey? Since it lasts forever, may be a good idea to buy one for you whole life.

[@MrGandoff]

"WAX ON, WAX OFF"

[@sappir26]

Great set up but how much of that honey comes from Organic Pollination with No pesticides or chemicals used on the plants that the bees feed from during the spring and summer months?

[@beeguyNE]

There is no such thing as Organic honey, bees will fly all over the place to collect pollen and nectar, There is no test that can be done on the honey to see if it was harvested from chemical free plants. You could have one field of sunflowers that are not treated with chemicals, and 2 miles away have a field of canola that is treated with chemicals, the bees don't know the difference, and bring the nectar into the supers. Organic honey is a marketing term, it means absolutely nothing.

[@hi.jonathan3987]

At $32million dollars a year you would think they would have electric forklifts. They could breathe a lot easier📌

[@JimDean002]

Those are propane powered so they're already a lot cleaner than gas or diesel

[@ibraheemali9541]

nice content subscribed

[@buyamerican3191]

Talk, Talk, Talk. Just show the important stuff!

[@StephenBradley2317]

I bet there are zero days that you aren't sticky when you get home.

[@rickjudgejr1435]

Is that safe to put the honey in a steel drum. Steel will rust or chip

[@igors.787]

And drum never washed.

[@JH-kh9lf]

Has anyone in your warehouse, NOT be stung by a bee that's hitched a ride?

[@zahrahoneypakistan9798]

Amazing work sir۔🥰 Sir I have some questions، can you please anwer me?

[@spaaggetii]

Honey! Wheres the HONEY?

[@Aereaphotography]

Nice diesel forklift in the honey house

[@Nick_865]

Its propane...

[@Matty88K]

​@Nick_865 Yes, it is propane. They should be using electric in an indoor food processing facility.

[@tomheineman4369]

Old fashioned peanut butter is the only way I will eat honey. Maybe it's OK to put it in beer but I don't drink beer. Honey is like tofu. It's OK for somebody else.

[@jebise1126]

with every barrel you get some extra rust or paint...

[@ali99958]

MUSIC IS TOO LOUD AND UNNECESSARY

[@andrerousselsapet5219]

Looks great This is one of the more modern factory plants Especially in the separation of the wax and honey Your temperatures that you maintain in the different areas??? So you can still call it RAW HONEY THE MIXINGBOFNYOUR HONEY IN THE PIPES???? Looks great I like you chatting and summary of where your honey comes from 🤞🤞🤞🤞👌😊🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@heidilecompte4198]

Where are the bees?

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Yeah, where are the bees?!? No mention of them at all.

[@zincfive]

Do a video of your wax extraction, please,,

[@Surga_myth_dewa_real]

Specific wooden honey hive choose,cause it not much release polutant and disturbing much nutrition quality inside honey and harvest,,thanks

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

That's "The sticky of the icky" Rick James.😪

[@muhammadkabiruharuna4480]

Wow. That’s really great. I have a bee farm on a small scale in Nigeria Africa. I will like to visit your farm some day. I hope you will be interested in developing a similar farm in Nigeria. We can partner with you. If you like the idea we can talk.