Category: John Miller
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Bobbing For Piranha
By: John Miller In recent editions, I’ve been vocal – alarmed – distressed by the Tropigeddon calamity. I’ve tub-thumped the subject, loud and long. I hope I’m wrong; very wrong. The top-line in early December was the annual colony loss report – for the first time, colony mortality in America exceeded 50% annually. 50% of…
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Is Beekeeping Relevant?
By: John Miller To beekeepers, yes! We absolutely are relevant! We are the gatekeepers of the food supply! However, we often occupy our own tribal echo chamber. We are fabulously flattered when someone beyond our tribe asks for an interview, or a recorded studio program, a videoed production and the 2024 near-ubiquitous podcast. But make…
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Commercial Beekeeping Is Stormy
By: John Miller Beekeeping is stormy. A beekeeper is justified fretting over myriad threats big and small. I have (finally) learned: There is no point fretting over the weather. It took a long time to stop fretting over uncontrollable matters (I still have lapses). It does not matter how hard we stare at the radar.…
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Aggravation Apiaries
Profit and Loss in a Beekeeping Business By: John Miller How are things in American commercial beekeeping? According to a survey of several successful operations in America, conditions are not ideal. The price of North American honey is poor. It is very possible that Argentina, a significant honey-producing country will experience yet another default and…