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Ready to take your beekeeping skills to the next level? In Business with Bees provides the answers you need.This book takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages and learning curves and offers practical, useful advice to move your passion into a part-time or full-time career with measurable results. This beekeeping business how-to guide offers all of the in-depth advice you need, in one place.Writing a business planFinding the best sources for fundingDetermining what your facilities will be and how to acquire themGetting and installing the right equipmentCooperating with other local businessesStocking inventory and managing warehouse spaceFinding customersRaising and selling queens, packages, and nucsExpanding pollination, including contracts to protect youMaking and selling peripheral products from wax, propolis, and honeyOrganizing teaching, speaking, and planning eventsHiring and managing your growing teamPromoting your businessMeasuring your successThis book provides solutions for all your beekeeping business questions, from start to finish. With this knowledge, you can become as knowledgeable, confident, and successful in running a business as you are in beekeeping.
Contents
IntroductionChapter 1: Growing Your Operation-How Big Do You Want to Get?More info on professional business planning, working with banks and USDA loan agencies, USDA programs for beginner agricultureTrading Time for MoneyBusiness Goals and Bigger PicturesBuying EquipmentBreakthrough: Lease Land for BeeyardsExpanding Your Honey HouseChapter 2: A New Look at Honey ProductionDe-emphasis on honey production due to increased competition with foreign honey and smaller returns. Meanwhile focusing on how to grow margins on local honey when volume is lower. What it Once Was and Why It ChangedNon-Agricultural AreasExpanding Natural BloomMigratory Beekeeping for Nectar CropsPlanning a Honey CropGrowing Your Own, with HelpHow Much Land Is Required?Working with Landowners with Lots of LandRecommended Plantings for Honey BeesThis Land Is My LandChapter 3: Royalty-Finding the Best QueenRoyal LineageThe Queens We Can GetWhat Do You Want from Your Bees?What Kind of Beekeeper Are You?Buying QueensRaising Your Own QueensRaising Production QueensBackground Check for Drone ColoniesChapter 4: The Working Class-The Bees that Beekeepers KeepEnhanced chapter for better moneymaking. Far less basic beekeeping info, more focus on having the right bees, timing, and methods. Keeping bees is easier if you're not making honey, so this is a new shift. Updating electronic monitoring equipment and cloud storage options, but more important is not the how but the why: economics, labor, speed.Preventing Springtime SwarmingAll About Honey ProductionPests and Other ProblemsChapter 5: PollinationWriting contracts, equipment needed, understanding pesticides, partnering with other beekeepers and pollination brokers, moving to staging yards, protection/nutrition in staging yards, working with growers on providing forage, and how to calculate your fee.Chapter 6: Wintering Your BeesWintering indoors has become more popular and efficient and may no longer require building a separate structure-rather than moving bees to southern climates. Traditional wintering outside is also covered.Winter RulesTake Care of the BeesThe Natural QuestionHow Much Honey?When It's Really ColdPollenSummaryGlossaryResourcesSuppliersIndexCreditsAbout the AuthorAcknowledgments
