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Only $120...these are two of the best, if not the best names for this industry.
Moniker 4/29/09
An amazing amount of potential end users - here
From the Daily News:
Commercial beekeepers typically rent out roughly 2 million bee colonies for widespread pollination of fruits and vegetables each year.
"If you look at cranberries in New England, most of the (farm owners) hire bees from commercial beekeepers for pollination," Groveland beekeeper Stan Sample said. "Blueberry harvesters also rent hives for pollination. If you go to New York state, where they're doing a lot of squash and cucumber, they hire bees for pollination. You get a better fruit set."
Rental fees vary from crop to crop, but are going up across the boards. Californian almond growers paid roughly $35 per colony in the late 1990s, a figure which jumped to approximately $75 per colony in 2005. And even more recent figures estimate that almond tree pollination fees have risen to $150 per colony.
Why? Supply and demand. Fewer honey bees are available for pollination while California's 550,000 acres of almond trees is expanding, according to a March 2007 report on the recent decline of honey bee colonies by the Congressional Research Service.
Moniker 4/29/09
An amazing amount of potential end users - here
From the Daily News:
Commercial beekeepers typically rent out roughly 2 million bee colonies for widespread pollination of fruits and vegetables each year.
"If you look at cranberries in New England, most of the (farm owners) hire bees from commercial beekeepers for pollination," Groveland beekeeper Stan Sample said. "Blueberry harvesters also rent hives for pollination. If you go to New York state, where they're doing a lot of squash and cucumber, they hire bees for pollination. You get a better fruit set."
Rental fees vary from crop to crop, but are going up across the boards. Californian almond growers paid roughly $35 per colony in the late 1990s, a figure which jumped to approximately $75 per colony in 2005. And even more recent figures estimate that almond tree pollination fees have risen to $150 per colony.
Why? Supply and demand. Fewer honey bees are available for pollination while California's 550,000 acres of almond trees is expanding, according to a March 2007 report on the recent decline of honey bee colonies by the Congressional Research Service.
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