Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Jul 1, 2015 12:50:18 GMT 1
The thought of starting a beekeeping business does sound exciting and fun, but in reality a lot of work is done and a lot of time is involved.
Most people who are in this are actually doing this as a hobby. Having a hobby and a livelihood are two entirely different areas since one is something you invest time and in some cases money and one is when you're trying to make a living at.
Beekeeping is like farming you have to stay on top of the market demands and be technologically savvy because much of the business is going to depend on how fast you can produce a single product.
Yet this is where you're going to learn that beekeeping isn't even like that because if you expect to make a profit you would have had to have been in the business for a long time and following the trends on what the market demanded of the time. Today if you don't even have a website then you should consider yourself a under dog in the business area because that is how you connect to the world by owning a business website or blog.
Most of the companies today are commercialized because the small businesses today are just not equipped to handle the mass production of honey and small businesses won't make a lot giving the fact you are paid by the pound and the average amount after weighing the whole season isn't a whole lot.
Beekeeping is a hobby that is gaining a lot of attention lately. The reason why it is gaining a lot of this attention is because the demand of honey has risen due to it's health benefits and because bees help in the pollination of our plants.
On the other hand it can be a reliable source of residual income because you can sell the honey produced by your bees and all related costs of producing it are extremely minimal allowing anyone to get started even on a tight budget.
The consumption of honey is over 300 million pounds per annum, just in the U.S alone. So you can imagine the consumption in the rest of the world for this extra special food if you were to export your produce.
Now, picture yourself and your family positioned to produce enough honey to meet the endless list of highly in demand bee products. This is a worldwide market ready for you to satisfy. It takes much less effort on your part. All you need is to be equipped with quality beekeeping information and a results-driven mindset.
Beekeeping can be a fascinating hobby and at the same time you can turn it into a lucrative business, the choice is yours. It is a healthy way of making money while enjoying the honey with your family and friends.
This is a competitive field to be selling honey and producing beeswax products since the beekeeping industry doesn't function as a co-op like many organic farmers do in this day and age where they work together beekeeping is sub-contract work and many of these small businesses are sub-contracted by these major corporations to produce honey under their label and their food line.
Sub-contracting may sound good and all, but you are also competing for these contracts as well with other small businesses and they are very high risks that you lose your contracts if there honey buying companies that hire you are not satisfied for what ever reason with something it could be anything like the quality of the product.
Which is a reason why this can be a risky business to get involved with because the outcome is unknown plus how the market fairs in different seasons since this is what a beekeeper bases their financial output by which is how much they anticipates to make on a seasonal basis.
Beekeepers almost have to base their financial gain through good weather and season with the market demand, but you can't always predict good weather, which is what many worry about. They have more to worry about than crop farmers since they can make the difference when they get rain and lower climate suitable to the food they're growing.
Beekeeping is dependent on the activity of the bees and how well they produce honey since bees produce in certain climates and temperatures. You should understand that in order to strive in this business a lot of work and a lot of time need to be invested into making this work for the long run.
Truly, there are many parts to educating and training a beekeeper, and what you will want to look at in one is the kind of dedication and seriousness needed for a type of lifestyle that has been in some families for many generations.
Courtesy of grandparents and parents, many keepers learn their skills through tradition and see their skill as a way of life. It wasn't even about making money it was actually just one other chore on the farm, but in the years it slowly progressed into a farm staple that was being sold like it was produce, meat and dairy, but it's still a profitable market anyway you look at it and it's one of the sweetest things in the world.
Most people who are in this are actually doing this as a hobby. Having a hobby and a livelihood are two entirely different areas since one is something you invest time and in some cases money and one is when you're trying to make a living at.
Beekeeping is like farming you have to stay on top of the market demands and be technologically savvy because much of the business is going to depend on how fast you can produce a single product.
Yet this is where you're going to learn that beekeeping isn't even like that because if you expect to make a profit you would have had to have been in the business for a long time and following the trends on what the market demanded of the time. Today if you don't even have a website then you should consider yourself a under dog in the business area because that is how you connect to the world by owning a business website or blog.
Most of the companies today are commercialized because the small businesses today are just not equipped to handle the mass production of honey and small businesses won't make a lot giving the fact you are paid by the pound and the average amount after weighing the whole season isn't a whole lot.
Beekeeping is a hobby that is gaining a lot of attention lately. The reason why it is gaining a lot of this attention is because the demand of honey has risen due to it's health benefits and because bees help in the pollination of our plants.
On the other hand it can be a reliable source of residual income because you can sell the honey produced by your bees and all related costs of producing it are extremely minimal allowing anyone to get started even on a tight budget.
The consumption of honey is over 300 million pounds per annum, just in the U.S alone. So you can imagine the consumption in the rest of the world for this extra special food if you were to export your produce.
Now, picture yourself and your family positioned to produce enough honey to meet the endless list of highly in demand bee products. This is a worldwide market ready for you to satisfy. It takes much less effort on your part. All you need is to be equipped with quality beekeeping information and a results-driven mindset.
Beekeeping can be a fascinating hobby and at the same time you can turn it into a lucrative business, the choice is yours. It is a healthy way of making money while enjoying the honey with your family and friends.
This is a competitive field to be selling honey and producing beeswax products since the beekeeping industry doesn't function as a co-op like many organic farmers do in this day and age where they work together beekeeping is sub-contract work and many of these small businesses are sub-contracted by these major corporations to produce honey under their label and their food line.
Sub-contracting may sound good and all, but you are also competing for these contracts as well with other small businesses and they are very high risks that you lose your contracts if there honey buying companies that hire you are not satisfied for what ever reason with something it could be anything like the quality of the product.
Which is a reason why this can be a risky business to get involved with because the outcome is unknown plus how the market fairs in different seasons since this is what a beekeeper bases their financial output by which is how much they anticipates to make on a seasonal basis.
Beekeepers almost have to base their financial gain through good weather and season with the market demand, but you can't always predict good weather, which is what many worry about. They have more to worry about than crop farmers since they can make the difference when they get rain and lower climate suitable to the food they're growing.
Beekeeping is dependent on the activity of the bees and how well they produce honey since bees produce in certain climates and temperatures. You should understand that in order to strive in this business a lot of work and a lot of time need to be invested into making this work for the long run.
Truly, there are many parts to educating and training a beekeeper, and what you will want to look at in one is the kind of dedication and seriousness needed for a type of lifestyle that has been in some families for many generations.
Courtesy of grandparents and parents, many keepers learn their skills through tradition and see their skill as a way of life. It wasn't even about making money it was actually just one other chore on the farm, but in the years it slowly progressed into a farm staple that was being sold like it was produce, meat and dairy, but it's still a profitable market anyway you look at it and it's one of the sweetest things in the world.