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

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @Catseye189
    @Catseye189 Год назад +12

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

  • @EverybodysSenator4US
    @EverybodysSenator4US Год назад +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 Год назад +1

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

    • @Ghhyuttgg
      @Ghhyuttgg Год назад +1

      @@captainamericaamerica8090 as opposed to what?

    • @Konarcoffee
      @Konarcoffee Год назад +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

  • @chuckholt9860
    @chuckholt9860 Год назад +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!

  • @MrTimjd123
    @MrTimjd123 Год назад +2

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

  • @dylanbenz7724
    @dylanbenz7724 7 месяцев назад

    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!

  • @mattstead387
    @mattstead387 2 года назад +110

    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 Год назад +9

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

    • @JamesJones-cx5pk
      @JamesJones-cx5pk Год назад +6

      Each hive 60 lb?. More like 6 lbs.

    • @beebop9808
      @beebop9808 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

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

    • @jeffmaster2306
      @jeffmaster2306 Год назад +7

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

  • @la9679
    @la9679 Год назад +2

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

  • @susanfulce764
    @susanfulce764 3 года назад +17

    So impressive. Thank you for this virtual field trip!

  • @rexrovig9299
    @rexrovig9299 3 года назад +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.

  • @gerardjohnson2106
    @gerardjohnson2106 3 года назад +10

    AMAZING. Their whole operation is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing

    • @PremierBeeProducts
      @PremierBeeProducts  3 года назад +2

      Thanks for watching, Gerard!

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

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

    • @BradCampbellmn
      @BradCampbellmn Год назад

      Most of the workers are H2A workers from other countries

  • @brettdean6182
    @brettdean6182 3 года назад +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 Год назад +2

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

    • @ak-jx1pm
      @ak-jx1pm Год назад

      Make the bees have sex

  • @628DirtRooster
    @628DirtRooster 3 года назад +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 Год назад +1

      Id like to see footage of Adees Mississippi location.

    • @628DirtRooster
      @628DirtRooster Год назад

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

  • @VictorFursov
    @VictorFursov 2 года назад +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!

  • @woke1340
    @woke1340 Год назад +5

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

  • @nectardocerrado
    @nectardocerrado Год назад

    Congratulations, hugs.

  • @mynsal
    @mynsal 3 года назад +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

  • @Will-ol9lp
    @Will-ol9lp Год назад +7

    So where are all the honey bees ???

    • @achosenone44
      @achosenone44 Год назад

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

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 Год назад +1

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

  • @russellkoopman3004
    @russellkoopman3004 3 года назад +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

  • @papasgrogreens9054
    @papasgrogreens9054 2 года назад +3

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

  • @nalixl
    @nalixl Год назад +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?

  • @MECowgo
    @MECowgo 2 года назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

      How can the bees produce honey without flowers?

  • @afterburner3999
    @afterburner3999 2 года назад +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.

  • @alisonyahna8041
    @alisonyahna8041 Год назад +1

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

  • @gwenyngruffydd
    @gwenyngruffydd 3 года назад +3

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

  • @satyanarayankankipati3633
    @satyanarayankankipati3633 Год назад

    Thank you. Very informative video. From India.

  • @Q..J..
    @Q..J.. Год назад +8

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

    • @id10t98
      @id10t98 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

      Pretty sure they were moved to the empty hives

    • @jamesdeclan7538
      @jamesdeclan7538 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

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

    • @airheartforge1796
      @airheartforge1796 Год назад

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

  • @gunawan8989
    @gunawan8989 Год назад

    Lovely experience...❤

  • @kennethdrovdal1082
    @kennethdrovdal1082 Год назад

    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.

  • @tawilk
    @tawilk Год назад

    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?

  • @gcb6185
    @gcb6185 7 месяцев назад

    How do you control moth infestation in the bee boxes?

  • @theophiluseshun771
    @theophiluseshun771 Год назад +2

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

  • @staudtj1
    @staudtj1 Год назад +1

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

  • @bogey19018
    @bogey19018 Год назад +1

    What does a barrel go for?

  • @Mike-lu1pt
    @Mike-lu1pt Год назад +1

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

  • @alexarce8547
    @alexarce8547 Год назад +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 месяцев назад

    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 года назад +1

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

    • @azpcox
      @azpcox Год назад +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.

  • @elricthebald
    @elricthebald 3 года назад +6

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

  • @mikefrench4787
    @mikefrench4787 Год назад

    Very impressive

  • @penelopelgoss2520
    @penelopelgoss2520 Год назад

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

  • @blaahster
    @blaahster 3 года назад +3

    Wow!

  • @oceanic8424
    @oceanic8424 Год назад

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

  • @deanguando1335
    @deanguando1335 Год назад

    Quite an operation.

  • @redwood1957
    @redwood1957 Год назад

    Is this non pasteurized honey?
    Thank you

  • @halfnelson6115
    @halfnelson6115 Год назад +3

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

    • @beebop9808
      @beebop9808 Год назад

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

    • @halfnelson6115
      @halfnelson6115 Год назад +2

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

  • @claraeditacandini9001
    @claraeditacandini9001 Год назад

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

    • @randallmarsh1187
      @randallmarsh1187 Год назад

      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.

  • @3eqab
    @3eqab Год назад +1

    لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
    بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

  • @NinjaForHire
    @NinjaForHire Год назад

    Its crazy how we can scale just about anything

  • @beegoodlife
    @beegoodlife Год назад

    Nice !

  • @raywyman8717
    @raywyman8717 Год назад

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

  • @BlackWit11
    @BlackWit11 Год назад +1

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

    • @JimDean002
      @JimDean002 Год назад +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

  • @HiMarsPewPew
    @HiMarsPewPew Год назад +1

    That’s a lot of honey 🍯 money 💰

  • @cw7784
    @cw7784 2 года назад +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

  • @jonesy4588
    @jonesy4588 Год назад

    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 .

  • @jovanvujovic3932
    @jovanvujovic3932 Год назад

    👍, riječi su suvišne

  • @robertzalenski4512
    @robertzalenski4512 Год назад

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

  • @garyclarke8862
    @garyclarke8862 Год назад

    What do you sell a barrel of honey for

  • @НикК-ч4м
    @НикК-ч4м 2 года назад +4

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

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 Год назад

      😂 you think food grade drums are all SS? Lol

  • @OregonCrow
    @OregonCrow Год назад

    Nice video, love the bee's! Subbed

  • @brianschrombeck7313
    @brianschrombeck7313 3 года назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @daleolson3506
      @daleolson3506 Год назад

      The. Music sucks

  • @karlburt01
    @karlburt01 Год назад

    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.

  • @jt-bw6qd
    @jt-bw6qd Год назад

    Find this to be stunning! Gagagagaga

  • @ibraheemali9541
    @ibraheemali9541 Год назад

    nice content subscribed

  • @lytken
    @lytken Год назад

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

  • @MartinGrenfell-q3w
    @MartinGrenfell-q3w Год назад

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

  • @noobishsite
    @noobishsite Год назад

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

  • @rickpawl
    @rickpawl Год назад

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

  • @rockvillemike6062
    @rockvillemike6062 Год назад

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

  • @jebise1126
    @jebise1126 Год назад

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

  • @rickjudgejr1435
    @rickjudgejr1435 2 года назад +2

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

    • @igors.787
      @igors.787 2 года назад +1

      And drum never washed.

  • @dewservices
    @dewservices Год назад

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

  • @johnl2727
    @johnl2727 Год назад

    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 года назад +1

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

  • @buyamerican3191
    @buyamerican3191 Год назад

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

  • @elbrusibrahimov9261
    @elbrusibrahimov9261 2 года назад +1

    👍👍👍

  • @stephenfanthorpe2708
    @stephenfanthorpe2708 Год назад

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

  • @Surga_myth_dewa_real
    @Surga_myth_dewa_real Год назад +1

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

  • @heidilecompte4198
    @heidilecompte4198 Год назад

    Where are the bees?

  • @EMBL2011
    @EMBL2011 Год назад

    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 Год назад

      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

  • @shakespearetiger800XR
    @shakespearetiger800XR Месяц назад

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

  • @JH-kh9lf
    @JH-kh9lf Год назад

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

  • @Aereaphotography
    @Aereaphotography 2 года назад +2

    Nice diesel forklift in the honey house

    • @Nick_865
      @Nick_865 2 года назад +3

      Its propane...

    • @Matty88K
      @Matty88K Год назад +2

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

  • @sappir26
    @sappir26 Год назад +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 Год назад

      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.

  • @StephenBradley2317
    @StephenBradley2317 Год назад

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

  • @andrerousselsapet5219
    @andrerousselsapet5219 Год назад +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
    🤞🤞🤞🤞👌😊🐝🐝🐝🐝

  • @floridagoods
    @floridagoods 2 месяца назад

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

  • @dwaynekoblitz6032
    @dwaynekoblitz6032 Год назад

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

  • @hi.jonathan3987
    @hi.jonathan3987 Год назад +4

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

    • @JimDean002
      @JimDean002 Год назад +1

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

  • @DJSTEWS
    @DJSTEWS Год назад

    Imagine a earthquake and aftermath of honey everywhere 😂

  • @tymz-r-achangin
    @tymz-r-achangin Год назад

    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

  • @MrGandoff
    @MrGandoff Год назад

    "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

  • @ali99958
    @ali99958 Год назад +1

    MUSIC IS TOO LOUD AND UNNECESSARY

  • @zincfive
    @zincfive Год назад

    Do a video of your wax extraction, please,,

  • @spaaggetii
    @spaaggetii Год назад

    Honey! Wheres the HONEY?

  • @BrianGLee-bc7hj
    @BrianGLee-bc7hj Год назад

    Honey made a relative a wealthy man

  • @muhammadkabiruharuna4480
    @muhammadkabiruharuna4480 Год назад +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.

  • @freespeech515
    @freespeech515 Год назад

    how many lifeforms in the honey?

  • @tomheineman4369
    @tomheineman4369 Год назад

    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.

  • @Surga_myth_dewa_real
    @Surga_myth_dewa_real Год назад +1

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