Extracting Honey From 80,000 Hives | Tour of Adee Honey Farms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- We toured one of the massive honey houses of the largest beekeeping operation in the country, Adee Honey Farms based in Bruce, South Dakota.
Follow third-generation beekeeper Kelvin Adee along as he walks you through his entire facility, from preparation in the hot room to barreling in the warehouse.
A big thanks to Kelvin and his team at Adee Honey Farms for hosting us. It was a true honor to share the story of the Adee family.
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0:00 - Hot Room
2:29 - Extracting Room
7:30 - Storage Room
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All the flowers and bees that went into that production, we thank you!
I was lucky enough to get a personal tour by Mr. Adee of the entire Bruce location and think back to it often. I am super pleased they made this video. And I thank him and his family for the wonderful tour several years ago. They are the largest Beekeepers in America.
THEIR HONEST IS JUST A CHEAP MASS PRODUCED MECHANICALLY PROCESSED HONEY. 😣😤😤😥
@@captainamericaamerica8090 as opposed to what?
@@Ghhyuttgg The same process but you take out every mixer/separator/etc. machine that you see in this video. Doing things at such mass scale 100% effects the final product
I am a truck driver who used to haul honey from a warehouse in New Jersey to Ohio. The loads were very heavy and tricky to know where to set your tandems. Your facility and process is impressive!
Worked it out based on 80000 hives and average Hive producing 60lb of honey the total wholesale value of that honey each year is $32million.
@ $2.60 avg wholesale price US/lb, that'd be a little closer to $12.5 M.
Each hive 60 lb?. More like 6 lbs.
@@JamesJones-cx5pk lol That's pretty pitiful. Adee's bread and butter is pollination services, honey is a byproduct. I'm sure they get on some crops that don't yield much honey though, like almonds.... but when you're cashing in $125 bucks a hive or so for a couple of weeks who cares how much honey they make.
@@beebop9808 You're clueless. You= 😳😳they sell , the wax= 💰💰💰the pollen è 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰wax is super pricey!
@@JamesJones-cx5pk you clearly don’t have bees some good hives can give more than 100lbs
Hi from Australia. I'm a queen bee breeder and harvest honey as well but only small scale. Love the set up you have for your extraction room. Keep up the great work.
Hey I'm an aspiring queen bee breeder do u have any tips for North Queensland
Make the bees have sex
So AMAZING!!! Thank you guys, I love honey! 🤤
As a resident of Bruce of many years ago it is of interest to me to see that the Bee industry is an up and going business in the area.
So impressive. Thank you for this virtual field trip!
Thanks for watching, Susan!
Thank you for interesting video about beekeeping industry and honey bees. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bee lovers, honey lovers and insect lovers!
Very interesting! I’d love to see the hives they have!
Congratulations, hugs.
AMAZING. Their whole operation is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching, Gerard!
IT'S A MASS PRODUCED MECHANICAL PRODUCTION FACTORY. THE BEST HONEY IS SMALL BATCH ORGANICS RAW HONEY. THE BEES🐝🐝THAT" MAKE THIS HONEY HERE
ARE FED WHITE REFINED SUGAR=!😣😣😤😧😧
I got my college degree from Brookings SD and went by Bruce many times and never knew there was such an impressive bee operation there. I wish I would have stopped in, maybe I could have gotten a summer job there. LOL
I really enjoyed this video! Great work! Big thumbs up from me all the way from Wales in the UK 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Lovely experience...❤
Crazy big work force, Glad they are putting that many people to work. Wow
Most of the workers are H2A workers from other countries
Thank you. Very informative video. From India.
I used to work for the adee family, great people great company.😊
Could you help me, please, what frames are used, can`t identify them unfortunately
That was something i wanted to see for a long time. Always been curious how something like that works at scale.
Anyway, is there any chance we'll see a video of the hives where this honey is harvested from?
Impressive. Top notch from in the door to out and continued success to you and your crew. I've always considered Watertown home no matter my address.
Very nice tour video. I interviewed Richard Adee in their Mississippi queen rearing yard several years back but never got around to editing the footage.
Id like to see footage of Adees Mississippi location.
@@isaacmartinez2102 I'll try to get that edited this season.
Wow!
Remember this. No bees. No food. No food. No people. Bees are angels and need to be loved and protected.
it appears bees are slave labor ...
Very impressive
As a mead homebrewer it's very interesting to see how my main ingredient is processed on a large scale. 👍
"Obey the bees." 🐝
Nice System i only had a 24 frame xtrcta and hand operated frame loader. No wax seperata just let it float on top in big tank b4 draining honey into drums then washed wax out after 3 days extracting 8 44s in one day alone.
My hometown is Bruce SD and my mothers house 🏡 is right across the street now currently bought by. My baby sister Julie and John
Quite an operation.
Nice !
Nice video, love the bee's! Subbed
That was pretty cool but I can't help thinking what would happen if a forklift ran into one of those walls of stacked honey barrels. A tsunami of honey.
Yeah this plant is absolutely crawling with OSHA violations. Stacking barrels like that, full or empty, is an instant citation. 105 degree F work environment, un-guarded chain drives, lack of hearing protection, bad forklift discipline, the list goes on. They should really take down this video or they're asking for a surprise visit if they haven't already.
How can the bees produce honey without flowers?
Its crazy how we can scale just about anything
nice content subscribed
wondering since they're not checking for amount of capped cells, how do they prevent fermentation when they're just blindly shuffling each frame in?
Hello, greetings, I am Alejandro Arce, I am a Mexican beekeeper with 28 years of experience. I am looking for a job opportunity in a bee farm. I appreciate any information. My mother tongue is Spanish. Thank you very much.
Now I want some fresh buttermilk biscuits, with honey.
👍, riječi su suvišne
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
How do you control? Small hive beetle in the hot room?
Cool
Amazing work sir۔🥰
Sir I have some questions، can you please anwer me?
Find this to be stunning! Gagagagaga
So where are all the honey bees ???
the sickos demonic fallen angels killed them !!! not deceiving me
Tell us you know nothing about beekeeping….without telling us you know nothing about beekeeping
That’s a lot of honey 🍯 money 💰
Where do the bees hangout during the extraction process? Is the frame completely emptied in the extraction process?
In heaven ... 🤣🤣🤣
👍👍👍
WOW ! I am so surprised thete aren't a bazillion bees in the extraction room.
Where do you get your barrels? Used? Reused? New?
I am from Ghana... Please can I extract from the Queen hive??? Because it contains a lot of honey...
What does a barrel go for?
Awesome setup! Just a backyard Beek here. Hey I noticed the sound mix is really uneven. I had to turn it down to 1 and it was still too loud. Just a thought. I'm also a sound engineer lol.
My thoughts exactly. Why do content creators rarely get this right?!
The. Music sucks
Is Honey still on the list of U.S. Govt. Commodities, available to Schools and Prisons?
Is this non pasteurized honey?
Thank you
What is the round thing the pallet is placed on at the extraction line?
Makes their job easier by raising and lowering based on the frames they have left. I imagine with as many boxes to process, bending over for even a small amount would build up into major back pain.
Your centrifuges times seem twice as long to spin, Ever considered Beetec nz centrifuges? Smaller units but i could see 4 per station would half your time and near dry.
How do they pollinate all of those fives that’s a question
It looks like the guy that was told to to get a barrell was like nah go get that other guy to do it @ 08:12 lmbo
No one explained what happened to the bees who worked so hard to make that honey. What happened to them?
They were given several weeks off to vacation in Italy, Monaco and the south of France before needing to return to work.
Pretty sure they were moved to the empty hives
Worker bees fill these things in the video called 'supers' and queen excluders, so the bees fill it up with honey, and once full, the bees leave that section of the hive alone, usually only a couple stragglers will be in it but otherwise none.
What you see here are just extentions . Bees stays in the main hive to serve the queen.
. . Like You and Me . . They Die . . .
after you take your honey up what do you do to ruin it , I have never bought any honey that was good to eat but from 1 person , and he did nothing to his honey but strain it and put it in a glass jar straight from the hive .
My parents just got back from visiting a honey farm. They have 2500 hives and being located in the Canadian prairies are able to get double the honey from each hive. The make a profit of $900,000 each year 😱 I want to be a honey bee farmer now. 💰 Plus I love honey 😋 and raw organic honey has so many health benefits.
you're right, raw honey does have many health benefits. But you still have to be careful as honey is sugar, and to much sugar is not healthy
with every barrel you get some extra rust or paint...
how do they differentiate honeycomb filled with honey and baby bees? no baby bees are killed in this process right?
They make a screen called a Queen Excluder that has holes too small for the queen to get through. Therefor she can't get in those supers and lay eggs ruining the honey.
What do you sell a barrel of honey for
HONEY : Natural liquid glucose,,(plantic glucose harvest by honey bee)
How do the bees feel about you taking all their honey?
Looks great
This is one of the more modern factory plants
Especially in the separation of the wax and honey
Your temperatures that you maintain in the different areas???
So you can still call it RAW HONEY
THE MIXINGBOFNYOUR HONEY IN THE PIPES????
Looks great
I like you chatting and summary of where your honey comes from
🤞🤞🤞🤞👌😊🐝🐝🐝🐝
Is Nature Nates real honey or does it have sugar syrup mixed in?
Adee is legit. They don't pack that crap.
@@beebop9808 I asked about Nature Nates. Not Adees.
Is that safe to put the honey in a steel drum. Steel will rust or chip
And drum never washed.
Great set up but how much of that honey comes from Organic Pollination with No pesticides or chemicals used on the plants that the bees feed from during the spring and summer months?
There is no such thing as Organic honey, bees will fly all over the place to collect pollen and nectar, There is no test that can be done on the honey to see if it was harvested from chemical free plants. You could have one field of sunflowers that are not treated with chemicals, and 2 miles away have a field of canola that is treated with chemicals, the bees don't know the difference, and bring the nectar into the supers. Organic honey is a marketing term, it means absolutely nothing.
Imagine a earthquake and aftermath of honey everywhere 😂
looks so dirty and the barrels are painted red on the inside?
It really would’ve been nice to see the extraction process and have that explained, but it was completely left out.
Talk, Talk, Talk. Just show the important stuff!
Imagine separating wax to blend it in to separate it again , beyond me
How much for a barrell of honey? Since it lasts forever, may be a good idea to buy one for you whole life.
So just one question..... where are all the bees?
Back on the farms in the hives. They don't take the entire hive down just the parts filled with honey. They leave the rest for the bees and add new empty slats for them to fill
you really need a better lens when filming the focus here if so bad and all over the place
but a good info film
Nice diesel forklift in the honey house
Its propane...
@Nick_865 Yes, it is propane. They should be using electric in an indoor food processing facility.
Red paint painting barrel inside? Why it's not stainless steel ?
😂 you think food grade drums are all SS? Lol
Do a video of your wax extraction, please,,
This kind of ruined my head in the sand vision of bee hives and honey driving down a road seeing five or six white hive boxes on a corner of some farm.
This was a surprise.... i thought honey house was a completely different house with lots of red lights and beds
"WAX ON, WAX OFF"
Honey made a relative a wealthy man
In Michigan
Where do the Bees go when their hives are in the factory.?🤔
Honey! Wheres the HONEY?
At $32million dollars a year
you would think they would have electric forklifts.
They could breathe a lot easier📌
Those are propane powered so they're already a lot cleaner than gas or diesel
I bet there are zero days that you aren't sticky when you get home.
Has anyone in your warehouse, NOT be stung by a bee that's hitched a ride?
The essence of the fruit from the garden of Eden is probably the only thing keeping them from getting down into their birthday suits in that 105 degree work area .... well that and the law suits that would follow
Where are the bees?
Yeah, where are the bees?!? No mention of them at all.
Wow. That’s really great. I have a bee farm on a small scale in Nigeria Africa. I will like to visit your farm some day. I hope you will be interested in developing a similar farm in Nigeria. We can partner with you.
If you like the idea we can talk.
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MUSIC IS TOO LOUD AND UNNECESSARY
Old fashioned peanut butter is the only way I will eat honey. Maybe it's OK to put it in beer but I don't drink beer. Honey is like tofu. It's OK for somebody else.
Thanks a lot Soros. Wait- what?
how many lifeforms in the honey?
That's "The sticky of the icky" Rick James.😪
Specific wooden honey hive choose,cause it not much release polutant and disturbing much nutrition quality inside honey and harvest,,thanks