Lloyd Cunniff

Where we live in Montana is like the premium honey producing part of the United States for pounds per colony.

Where we live in Montana is like the premium honey producing part of the United States for pounds per colony.

And I'm glad that I got to see it. And I call it the golden age of honey production because you couldn't do anything wrong. The weather was perfect. The bees were perfect.

And I'm glad that I got to see it. And I call it the golden age of honey production because you couldn't do anything wrong. The weather was perfect. The bees were perfect.

Nowadays, the bees don't have that ability to bounce back. If anything bad happens to them, they're done.

Nowadays, the bees don't have that ability to bounce back. If anything bad happens to them, they're done.

Off of one semi-load, I can make $100,000. In two weeks. Two weeks, yeah.

Off of one semi-load, I can make $100,000. In two weeks. Two weeks, yeah.

I was so mad, yeah. I waited for like two hours for the sheriffs to show up. And I was on Facebook and I mouthed out, oh my God, it just blew up.

I was so mad, yeah. I waited for like two hours for the sheriffs to show up. And I was on Facebook and I mouthed out, oh my God, it just blew up.

I drove around that morning, the hired man and I. Drove around and we stopped and talked to a couple different beekeepers that we saw working in the fields. Everybody that I talked to said, you'll never find them.

I drove around that morning, the hired man and I. Drove around and we stopped and talked to a couple different beekeepers that we saw working in the fields. Everybody that I talked to said, you'll never find them.

One kid I talked to said that he'd lost 300 colonies the year before and never saw anything of them.

One kid I talked to said that he'd lost 300 colonies the year before and never saw anything of them.

It was so foggy the night they got stolen, you couldn't see 100 feet, so nobody would have even seen them.

It was so foggy the night they got stolen, you couldn't see 100 feet, so nobody would have even seen them.

In order to steal 700 and some colonies in one night, it took more than one truck and a couple guys on each truck. They weren't semis because there wasn't room to turn a semi around in there.

In order to steal 700 and some colonies in one night, it took more than one truck and a couple guys on each truck. They weren't semis because there wasn't room to turn a semi around in there.

They had forklifts like mine because of the tracks they make in the mud.

They had forklifts like mine because of the tracks they make in the mud.