Steve Levitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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We can start to answer this question by looking at Hyatt's business.
He runs one of the country's largest honey producing operations.
Though there have been some technological advances over the course of Hyatt's life, the industry still requires a lot of labor, both from the humans and the bees.
How many bees is that total?
By my math, that works out to Hyatt caring for roughly a billion bees during a busy summer.
Those bees don't just make honey.
Like many bees in large commercial hives, they have a second critical job.
They pollinate crops on big commercial farms.
During pollination season, Chris Hyatt has his hives loaded into semi-trucks and driven all across the United States.
So 80 per hive, and you've got 18,000 hives.
So you're talking about almost 1.5 million pounds of honey?
You said your dad used to be able to get 200 and something pounds of honey out of a hive in Alberta.
Yeah.
What has changed?
I would have thought the opposite would be true, right?
With technology, we've learned a lot more about keeping bees healthy.
You'd think that the yield per hive should have doubled or tripled.
But what you just described is that it's maybe half of what it used to be.
Why is that?
Interestingly, the gap between the retail price and what's paid to the farmer, that's really grown a lot over time.
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