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By: Jessica Louque Red Tape Everywhere If you’ve ever thought about starting your own agricultural business, from selling bee products to farmer’s markets, I…
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Regional Honey Price Report: August
So, what’s it take to sell your honey? Of course is it good comes in first, and when selling retail (1:1), giving a taste…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Making A Family Business My oldest son Henry is a senior this year. A good portion of this particular paragraph (and…
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Regional Honey Price Report
July Report Honey Labels We surveyed our reporters this month asking about the labels they use on their honey jars. We asked yes or…
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Regional Honey Price Report – May Report
Winter & Spring Conditions We checked in with our reporters this month to determine how good, or how bad their Spring weather had been,…
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Regional Honey Price Report: May Report
Honey Market Prediction Imports are still a challenge when it comes to honey prices (and honey quality), so we checked in with our reporters…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Pesticides and Beekeepers – A Difficult Relationship In previous months, I’ve given a presentation on pesticides and beekeepers several times. It’s…
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He Fought The Law . . . And The Law Won
By: Noel Sweeney Law is our language of natural justice which we use to speak for the strong and the weak. Part of its…
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U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2017
By Kim Flottum United States honey production in 2017 from producers with five or more colonies totaled 148 million pounds, down nine percent from…
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Regional Honey Price Report
April Report Winter So Far In late Feb we surveyed our reporters to see how winter was going so far, what they had done…
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The Bigger Picture
An Ode To Turkeys By: Jessica Louque I’ve been on a business kick for the past few months, but I thought I’d switch gears…
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Bigger Picture
The Business of Bees: Part III By: Jessica Louque To fuel the side addictions of birds and bees, most people do have to have…
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March Report
Where Do They Sell Their Honey? Below is the past seven years data on where our reporters sell their honey. We have 17…
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Bigger Picture
Honey Bee Testing Intro By: Jessica Louque It’s been very surprising to me how many people do not understand the process of pesticide regulation…
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Honey Market Report
February Report Who sells what? For the 8th time we went to our reporters to see what they sell that’s made by their bees….
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Bigger Picture
The Business of Bees: Part II of III In Part I of this series, I explained how to do a Sole Proprietorship for a…
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Regional Honey Price Report
JANUARY REPORT Some Management Practices We asked our reporters about some of their management practices this month, expanding it some from the survey we…
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Regional Honey Market Report
DECEMBER REPORT We’re throwing a lot of numbers at you this month but we think you’ll find them useful. Below is our monthly report…
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It’s MAGIC! You CAN Sell Honey For $20/lb
By: Leo Sharashkin A Missouri statute says: “Farmer not merchant.” That’s spot on: for many farmers and beekeepers bringing in a great crop is…
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What To Do On Facebook
By: Jessica Dally I’ve written quite a bit about social media, what to do, what not to do, how to start. Now it’s time…
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