Some beekeepers put their hives on other sites for over-wintering. Here are some of the many ways you can make money with bees:. Feel free to post as many photos and video clips as you like and please include any commentary.
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Beekeeping has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, and it continues to be a profitable endeavor for many hobbyists and professionals. While honey is the obvious source of income for beekeepers, you might be surprised to learn that there are many other streams of revenue connected to beekeeping. Here are some of the many ways you can make money with bees:. Honey is the most obvious hivee from beekeeping and it enjoys a high level of popularity with consumers, making it a highly marketable product. Each hive of bees can produce anywhere from 20 to 60 pounds of honey on average per year depending on a variety of factors such as geographic location, weather, temperature, pests, local flora, and. Some hives can moneyy much greater amounts under sith management conditions. Beeswax can be converted into many different products including candles, soap, and lip balm.
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How many hives would it take to make grand? My stepfather is a hobbyist beekeeper and I’m thinking about starting up my own business. Any thoughts? Thanks, Michael. Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements. How much money? I get the feeling from talking to professionals that in a really good year they break. You can make a lot of money, but you will probably spend all you make and a little.
Originally Posted by shawnwri. The money is in the marketing and products. Beekeeping is a type of farming and the weather plays too much role to consistently predict.
So say you get lbs of honey. Then there is the wax products cosmetics that people might buy. And the flavored honey and the spun honey and the flavored spun honey and the honey sticks and. And then there is the making and selling queen and nucs And pollination And it is all a LOT of work to make it all work. I prefer to sit back and enjoy the bees, not do all that work. There are a lot of possibilities, but most of them need a good business model and marketing plan for them to work. If you are like me and not a business oriented person, then you probably won’t make much money.
Scadsofbees is pretty much right on. It’s not a simple task. Like farming there are good years and bad years And depending on where in the country you live will have much to do as to where you can gain the most from the different bee «products» thats scads talked.
I think everyone will advise you to start small You will find at what level you can work things to come in at least. If you are losing constantly I have just hit that mark this year. I started about 5 years ago, and I can say that if it were not for the income I receive from removals and swarm capture, I would definately be in the red I happen to be in a unique position, as I have two sons who are full time students, but are available during most of the busy season to do removals during the week for me while I continue to work a full time day job.
As for actual income from hives, I won’t have any reliable history for a couple of years so unfortunatley I am of little help in answering your question.
Originally Posted by MikeyReej. If you are looking to make money In Beekeeping. You may try the Craps table. The odds are better the work is not as hot or hard. And if you are in the right place they comp you free liquor to help you lose. Absolutely develop your own market and skip the sale to packers.
You also need to think beyond just honey. Wax, pollen, propolis, pollination, swarm removal, nucs, queen rearing, other value added honey products. Some of these can help even out the income when the honey crop is. But there are good years and bad, and it’s certainly far from the steady income of a regular job.
For me, what Tim mentioned is the key to success. My bees make honey only twice in a year, and one of those times takes a lot of moving and gas. So if I stay and wait for the blackberries, afterwards they aren’t going to bring in more honey. Well, some but not. On the other hand, they will continue to bring in pollen, which I’m trapping. Pollen is worth more than honey in my local market, way. They’ll continue to collect propolis and I’ll continue to save it. I’ll cut out bees when they pay me to do so.
I’ll sell a frame of brood or nuc as the opportunity permits. I’ll even do some lightweight pollination for a local farm. The wax can be made into candles. The honey, creamed, flavored and packaged. If I just wait on honey that’s one payout once a year. It’s the other things that give a trickle of income throughout the other months. I’m a comitted hobby beekeeper meaning I should be committed, I guess so for me there’s no downside to a lost sale.
Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the transition from season to season, product to product. There’s more to the hive than honey. Join Date Dec Location St. Albans, Vermont Posts 8, Where are you going to keep the hives? So, I choose to keep 8 to 12 hives here at the house just to give me something of interest to play around. Any business that doesn’t profit will go under within a few years, if. There has to be some money in it to stay in business. Most beekeepers like anyone else, just don’t want to tell you what they make, because it’s no one’s business but their’s and the IRS.
I have twenty five hives. There is profit to be made, you just have to find it. The problem comes when you lose a large portion of your hives to the winter. As others have said, you need more than just honey.
Consider honey a product that will pay for your running costs and expansion. The real money is in nucs, queens, pollination, and other hive products. Next year I will spend all that profit on expansion, that is where the money goes, equipment. If you want to be a commercial beekeeper, learn to cut costs. Raise your own queens. Stop buying packages, and nucs after you have enough hives to fuel your own expansion.
Buy used equipment except for frames. Then learn to sell your own nucs and queens. The only queens that you should be ordering will go into your nucs. If you live in the north, learn to raise them the previous year and bank them for next year. Learn to overwinter nucs, and split like crazy, but not to much that they will not be able to survive.
I’ve figured out that the key to success is marketing, time management, cutting costs, and being able to replace your loses without to much investment. Lets brake it down: hives: Not including initial investment of equipment. That is assumed that the beekeeper will reinvest in expansion using the profits.
And not counting things like comb honey, or retail sales that most beekeepers. Not including any other hive products, or nuc how much money can i make with 10 bee hives queen sales. Don’t use treatments indiscriminately, this only raises your costs and makes deases more immune to the treatments. Hire high school students. If you have thousands and thousands of hives, you may have to hire a few full time employees. I know a beekeeper that handled hives by himself until he was 86 years old.
Correct me if I missed. Originally Posted by IndianaHoney. Marketing, cutting costs, time management, and replacing your loses without cutting into your production. Thanks How realistic would it be for a beekeeper with about 3 years experience to handle hives by himself full time.
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