Extracting Honey From 80,000 Hives | Tour of Adee Honey Farms

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  • @Catseye189
    @Catseye189 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    All the flowers and bees that went into that production, we thank you!

  • @EverybodysSenator4US
    @EverybodysSenator4US ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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.

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THEIR HONEST IS JUST A CHEAP MASS PRODUCED MECHANICALLY PROCESSED HONEY. 😣😤😤😥

    • @Ghhyuttgg
      @Ghhyuttgg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@captainamericaamerica8090 as opposed to what?

    • @Konarcoffee
      @Konarcoffee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

  • @MrTimjd123
    @MrTimjd123 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember this. No bees. No food. No food. No people. Bees are angels and need to be loved and protected.

    • @davediamond7228
      @davediamond7228 ปีที่แล้ว

      it appears bees are slave labor ...

  • @chuckholt9860
    @chuckholt9860 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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!

  • @dylanbenz7724
    @dylanbenz7724 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My grandpa has worked for Adee Honey Farms since he was 16 years old. He’s 83 now. Still works hahaha. I’ve gotten so much of this honey over the years. It’s great!

  • @rexrovig9299
    @rexrovig9299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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.

  • @la9679
    @la9679 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I used to work for the adee family, great people great company.😊

  • @susanfulce764
    @susanfulce764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    So impressive. Thank you for this virtual field trip!

  • @mattstead387
    @mattstead387 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    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.

    • @beebop9808
      @beebop9808 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @ $2.60 avg wholesale price US/lb, that'd be a little closer to $12.5 M.

    • @JamesJones-cx5pk
      @JamesJones-cx5pk ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Each hive 60 lb?. More like 6 lbs.

    • @beebop9808
      @beebop9808 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@beebop9808 You're clueless. You= 😳😳they sell , the wax= 💰💰💰the pollen è 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰wax is super pricey!

    • @jeffmaster2306
      @jeffmaster2306 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JamesJones-cx5pk you clearly don’t have bees some good hives can give more than 100lbs

  • @gerardjohnson2106
    @gerardjohnson2106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    AMAZING. Their whole operation is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing

    • @PremierBeeProducts
      @PremierBeeProducts  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for watching, Gerard!

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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=!😣😣😤😧😧

  • @kennyirish5021
    @kennyirish5021 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy big work force, Glad they are putting that many people to work. Wow

    • @BradCampbellmn
      @BradCampbellmn ปีที่แล้ว

      Most of the workers are H2A workers from other countries

  • @brettdean6182
    @brettdean6182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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.

    • @danielcollins9628
      @danielcollins9628 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey I'm an aspiring queen bee breeder do u have any tips for North Queensland

    • @ak-jx1pm
      @ak-jx1pm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Make the bees have sex

  • @VictorFursov
    @VictorFursov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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!

  • @628DirtRooster
    @628DirtRooster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @isaacmartinez2102
      @isaacmartinez2102 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Id like to see footage of Adees Mississippi location.

    • @628DirtRooster
      @628DirtRooster ปีที่แล้ว

      @@isaacmartinez2102 I'll try to get that edited this season.

  • @nalixl
    @nalixl ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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?

  • @woke1340
    @woke1340 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very interesting! I’d love to see the hives they have!

  • @nectardocerrado
    @nectardocerrado ปีที่แล้ว

    Congratulations, hugs.

  • @alisonyahna8041
    @alisonyahna8041 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do you control? Small hive beetle in the hot room?

  • @papasgrogreens9054
    @papasgrogreens9054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So AMAZING!!! Thank you guys, I love honey! 🤤

  • @3eqab
    @3eqab ปีที่แล้ว +1

    لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
    بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

  • @russellkoopman3004
    @russellkoopman3004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @gwenyngruffydd
    @gwenyngruffydd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I really enjoyed this video! Great work! Big thumbs up from me all the way from Wales in the UK 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @satyanarayankankipati3633
    @satyanarayankankipati3633 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. Very informative video. From India.

  • @Will-ol9lp
    @Will-ol9lp ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So where are all the honey bees ???

    • @achosenone44
      @achosenone44 ปีที่แล้ว

      the sickos demonic fallen angels killed them !!! not deceiving me

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tell us you know nothing about beekeeping….without telling us you know nothing about beekeeping

  • @mynsal
    @mynsal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My hometown is Bruce SD and my mothers house 🏡 is right across the street now currently bought by. My baby sister Julie and John

  • @afterburner3999
    @afterburner3999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @Q..J..
    @Q..J.. ปีที่แล้ว +8

    No one explained what happened to the bees who worked so hard to make that honey. What happened to them?

    • @id10t98
      @id10t98 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They were given several weeks off to vacation in Italy, Monaco and the south of France before needing to return to work.

    • @nailadee
      @nailadee ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pretty sure they were moved to the empty hives

    • @jamesdeclan7538
      @jamesdeclan7538 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @Chef2667
      @Chef2667 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What you see here are just extentions . Bees stays in the main hive to serve the queen.

    • @airheartforge1796
      @airheartforge1796 ปีที่แล้ว

      . . Like You and Me . . They Die . . .

  • @Mike-lu1pt
    @Mike-lu1pt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    looks so dirty and the barrels are painted red on the inside?

  • @elricthebald
    @elricthebald 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a mead homebrewer it's very interesting to see how my main ingredient is processed on a large scale. 👍
    "Obey the bees." 🐝

  • @gunawan8989
    @gunawan8989 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely experience...❤

  • @MECowgo
    @MECowgo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

    • @kleebgaming5209
      @kleebgaming5209 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @vivianhart7152
      @vivianhart7152 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can the bees produce honey without flowers?

  • @bogey19018
    @bogey19018 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What does a barrel go for?

  • @kennethdrovdal1082
    @kennethdrovdal1082 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @alexarce8547
    @alexarce8547 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @DoubleUA
    @DoubleUA 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do you have to heat, why not just extract honey after slicing the layers. Is it to flow better or safer?

  • @3Beehivesto300
    @3Beehivesto300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is the round thing the pallet is placed on at the extraction line?

    • @azpcox
      @azpcox ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @tawilk
    @tawilk ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @penelopelgoss2520
    @penelopelgoss2520 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where do you get your barrels? Used? Reused? New?

  • @blaahster
    @blaahster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow!

  • @oceanic8424
    @oceanic8424 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where do the bees hangout during the extraction process? Is the frame completely emptied in the extraction process?

  • @gcb6185
    @gcb6185 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do you control moth infestation in the bee boxes?

  • @redwood1957
    @redwood1957 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this non pasteurized honey?
    Thank you

  • @staudtj1
    @staudtj1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is Honey still on the list of U.S. Govt. Commodities, available to Schools and Prisons?

  • @theophiluseshun771
    @theophiluseshun771 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am from Ghana... Please can I extract from the Queen hive??? Because it contains a lot of honey...

  • @brianschrombeck7313
    @brianschrombeck7313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

    • @infinity_CNC
      @infinity_CNC ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts exactly. Why do content creators rarely get this right?!

    • @daleolson3506
      @daleolson3506 ปีที่แล้ว

      The. Music sucks

  • @halfnelson6115
    @halfnelson6115 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is Nature Nates real honey or does it have sugar syrup mixed in?

    • @beebop9808
      @beebop9808 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adee is legit. They don't pack that crap.

    • @halfnelson6115
      @halfnelson6115 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@beebop9808 I asked about Nature Nates. Not Adees.

  • @claraeditacandini9001
    @claraeditacandini9001 ปีที่แล้ว

    how do they differentiate honeycomb filled with honey and baby bees? no baby bees are killed in this process right?

    • @randallmarsh1187
      @randallmarsh1187 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @mikefrench4787
    @mikefrench4787 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very impressive

  • @jonesy4588
    @jonesy4588 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 .

  • @BlackWit11
    @BlackWit11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So just one question..... where are all the bees?

    • @JimDean002
      @JimDean002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

  • @beegoodlife
    @beegoodlife ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice !

  • @raywyman8717
    @raywyman8717 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do they pollinate all of those fives that’s a question

  • @HiMarsPewPew
    @HiMarsPewPew ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That’s a lot of honey 🍯 money 💰

  • @НикК-ч4м
    @НикК-ч4м 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Red paint painting barrel inside? Why it's not stainless steel ?

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂 you think food grade drums are all SS? Lol

  • @jovanvujovic3932
    @jovanvujovic3932 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍, riječi su suvišne

  • @deanguando1335
    @deanguando1335 ปีที่แล้ว

    Quite an operation.

  • @garyclarke8862
    @garyclarke8862 ปีที่แล้ว

    What do you sell a barrel of honey for

  • @NinjaForHire
    @NinjaForHire ปีที่แล้ว

    Its crazy how we can scale just about anything

  • @robertzalenski4512
    @robertzalenski4512 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW ! I am so surprised thete aren't a bazillion bees in the extraction room.

  • @OregonCrow
    @OregonCrow ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video, love the bee's! Subbed

  • @EMBL2011
    @EMBL2011 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

    • @SuperSaltydog77
      @SuperSaltydog77 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @cw7784
    @cw7784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @lytken
    @lytken ปีที่แล้ว

    you really need a better lens when filming the focus here if so bad and all over the place
    but a good info film

  • @Surga_myth_dewa_real
    @Surga_myth_dewa_real ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HONEY : Natural liquid glucose,,(plantic glucose harvest by honey bee)

  • @rickjudgejr1435
    @rickjudgejr1435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that safe to put the honey in a steel drum. Steel will rust or chip

    • @igors.787
      @igors.787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And drum never washed.

  • @karlburt01
    @karlburt01 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @floridagoods
    @floridagoods 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How can you have 485,000 views with only 5,000 subscribers???

  • @jt-bw6qd
    @jt-bw6qd ปีที่แล้ว

    Find this to be stunning! Gagagagaga

  • @jebise1126
    @jebise1126 ปีที่แล้ว

    with every barrel you get some extra rust or paint...

  • @buyamerican3191
    @buyamerican3191 ปีที่แล้ว

    Talk, Talk, Talk. Just show the important stuff!

  • @ibraheemali9541
    @ibraheemali9541 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice content subscribed

  • @rickpawl
    @rickpawl ปีที่แล้ว

    It really would’ve been nice to see the extraction process and have that explained, but it was completely left out.

  • @stephenfanthorpe2708
    @stephenfanthorpe2708 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine separating wax to blend it in to separate it again , beyond me

  • @dewservices
    @dewservices ปีที่แล้ว

    How much for a barrell of honey? Since it lasts forever, may be a good idea to buy one for you whole life.

  • @noobishsite
    @noobishsite ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a surprise.... i thought honey house was a completely different house with lots of red lights and beds

  • @rockvillemike6062
    @rockvillemike6062 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do the bees feel about you taking all their honey?

  • @MartinGrenfell-q3w
    @MartinGrenfell-q3w ปีที่แล้ว

    Where do the Bees go when their hives are in the factory.?🤔

  • @elbrusibrahimov9261
    @elbrusibrahimov9261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍👍👍

  • @johnl2727
    @johnl2727 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @zahrahoneypakistan9798
    @zahrahoneypakistan9798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing work sir۔🥰
    Sir I have some questions، can you please anwer me?

  • @sappir26
    @sappir26 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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?

    • @beeguyNE
      @beeguyNE ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @hi.jonathan3987
    @hi.jonathan3987 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At $32million dollars a year
    you would think they would have electric forklifts.
    They could breathe a lot easier📌

    • @JimDean002
      @JimDean002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those are propane powered so they're already a lot cleaner than gas or diesel

  • @heidilecompte4198
    @heidilecompte4198 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where are the bees?

  • @StephenBradley2317
    @StephenBradley2317 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bet there are zero days that you aren't sticky when you get home.

  • @dwaynekoblitz6032
    @dwaynekoblitz6032 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah, where are the bees?!? No mention of them at all.

  • @shakespearetiger800XR
    @shakespearetiger800XR หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happened to all the bees? You showed the empty hives. But NO bees.

  • @tomheineman4369
    @tomheineman4369 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @BrianGLee-bc7hj
    @BrianGLee-bc7hj ปีที่แล้ว

    Honey made a relative a wealthy man

  • @spaaggetii
    @spaaggetii ปีที่แล้ว

    Honey! Wheres the HONEY?

  • @JH-kh9lf
    @JH-kh9lf ปีที่แล้ว

    Has anyone in your warehouse, NOT be stung by a bee that's hitched a ride?

  • @tymz-r-achangin
    @tymz-r-achangin ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @DJSTEWS
    @DJSTEWS ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine a earthquake and aftermath of honey everywhere 😂

  • @muhammadkabiruharuna4480
    @muhammadkabiruharuna4480 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @MrGandoff
    @MrGandoff ปีที่แล้ว

    "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

  • @zincfive
    @zincfive ปีที่แล้ว

    Do a video of your wax extraction, please,,

  • @Surga_myth_dewa_real
    @Surga_myth_dewa_real ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Specific wooden honey hive choose,cause it not much release polutant and disturbing much nutrition quality inside honey and harvest,,thanks

  • @andrerousselsapet5219
    @andrerousselsapet5219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
    🤞🤞🤞🤞👌😊🐝🐝🐝🐝

  • @ali99958
    @ali99958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MUSIC IS TOO LOUD AND UNNECESSARY

  • @freespeech515
    @freespeech515 ปีที่แล้ว

    how many lifeforms in the honey?

  • @Aereaphotography
    @Aereaphotography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice diesel forklift in the honey house

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its propane...

    • @Matty88K
      @Matty88K ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@Nick_865 Yes, it is propane. They should be using electric in an indoor food processing facility.