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

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We toured one of the massive honey houses of the largest beekeeping operation in the country, Adee Honey Farms based in Bruce, South Dakota.
Follow third-generation beekeeper Kelvin Adee along as he walks you through his entire facility, from preparation in the hot room to barreling in the warehouse.
A big thanks to Kelvin and his team at Adee Honey Farms for hosting us. It was a true honor to share the story of the Adee family.
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0:00 - Hot Room
2:29 - Extracting Room
7:30 - Storage Room
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@Catseye189 9 месяцев назад

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

@EverybodysSenator4US Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@Ghhyuttgg Год назад

@@captainamericaamerica8090 as opposed to what?

@Konarcoffee Год назад

@@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 Год назад

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

@davediamond7228 Год назад

it appears bees are slave labor ...

@chuckholt9860 Год назад

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!

@mattstead387 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@JamesJones-cx5pk Год назад

Each hive 60 lb?. More like 6 lbs.

@beebop9808 Год назад

@@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 Год назад

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

@jeffmaster2306 Год назад

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

@la9679 4 месяца назад

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

@user-si7ps9jt6o 3 месяца назад

Could you help me, please, what frames are used, can`t identify them unfortunately

@brettdean6182 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@ak-jx1pm 4 месяца назад

Make the bees have sex

@susanfulce764 2 года назад

So impressive. Thank you for this virtual field trip!

@PremierBeeProducts 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, Susan!

@mynsal 2 года назад

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

@rexrovig9299 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

AMAZING. Their whole operation is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing

@PremierBeeProducts 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, Gerard!

@captainamericaamerica8090 Год назад

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 10 месяцев назад

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

@BradCampbellmn 5 месяцев назад

Most of the workers are H2A workers from other countries

@3eqab Год назад

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

@MECowgo Год назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

How can the bees produce honey without flowers?

@nalixl Год назад

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?

@elricthebald870 2 года назад

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

@afterburner3999 Год назад

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.

@papasgrogreens9054 Год назад

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

@alexarce8547 Год назад

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.

@nectardocerrado Год назад

Congratulations, hugs.

@woke1340 Год назад

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

@Will-ol9lp Год назад

So where are all the honey bees ???

@achosenone44 Год назад

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

@Nick_865 10 месяцев назад

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

@russellkoopman3004 2 года назад

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

@VictorFursov Год назад

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!

@gwenyngruffydd 2 года назад

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

@blaahster 2 года назад

Wow!

@squirtdaddy3428 Год назад

Now I want some fresh buttermilk biscuits, with honey.

@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.

@gunawan8989 11 месяцев назад

Lovely experience...❤

@628DirtRooster 2 года назад

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 Год назад

Id like to see footage of Adees Mississippi location.

@628DirtRooster Год назад

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

@satyanarayankankipati3633 Год назад

Thank you. Very informative video. From India.

@HiMarsPewPew Год назад

That’s a lot of honey 🍯 money 💰

@mikefrench4787 Год назад

Very impressive

@Q..J.. Год назад

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

@id10t98 Год назад

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

@nailadee Год назад

Pretty sure they were moved to the empty hives

@jamesdeclan7538 Год назад

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.

@karims2667 Год назад

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

@airheartforge1796 9 месяцев назад

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

@deanguando1335 Год назад

Quite an operation.

@beegoodlife 11 месяцев назад

Nice !

@cw7784 Год назад

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

@Sorga_myth_dewa_real Год назад

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

@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?

@OregonCrow Год назад

Nice video, love the bee's! Subbed

@jt-bw6qd Год назад

Find this to be stunning! Gagagagaga

@alisonyahna8041 10 месяцев назад

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

@NinjaForHire Год назад

Its crazy how we can scale just about anything

@jovanvujovic3932 8 месяцев назад

👍, riječi su suvišne

@staudtj1 Год назад

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

@robertzalenski4512 9 месяцев назад

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

@gcb6185 14 минут назад

How do you control moth infestation in the bee boxes?

@adirtyrat Год назад

Cool

@elbrusibrahimov9261 2 года назад

👍👍👍

@ibraheemali9541 Год назад

nice content subscribed

@theophiluseshun771 Год назад

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

@brianschrombeck7313 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@daleolson3506 Год назад

The. Music sucks

@buyamerican3191 Год назад

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

@penelopelgoss2520 Год назад

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

@jonesy4588 9 месяцев 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 .

@bogey19018 Год назад

What does a barrel go for?

@oceanic8424 Год назад

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

@suryakant1112 Год назад

In heaven ... 🤣🤣🤣

@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.

@3Beehivesto300 Год назад

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

@azpcox Год назад

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.

@BlackWit11 Год назад

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

@JimDean002 Год назад

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

@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 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

@stephenfanthorpe2708 11 месяцев назад

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

@noobishsite Год назад

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

@halfnelson6115 Год назад

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

@beebop9808 Год назад

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

@halfnelson6115 Год назад

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

@redwood1957 5 месяцев назад

Is this non pasteurized honey? Thank you

@jebise1126 8 месяцев назад

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

@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 2 года назад

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

@user-eb3oq9rn9n Год назад

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

@Nick_865 10 месяцев назад

😂 you think food grade drums are all SS? Lol

@claraeditacandini9001 Год назад

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

@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.

@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 Год назад

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

@spaaggetii Год назад

Honey! Wheres the HONEY?

@MrGandoff Год назад

"WAX ON, WAX OFF"

@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.

@Mike-lu1pt 9 месяцев назад

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

@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

@raywyman8717 9 месяцев назад

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

@StephenBradley2317 Год назад

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

@garyclarke8862 Год назад

What do you sell a barrel of honey for

@user-dz5hv3sx5s Год назад

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

@DJSTEWS Год назад

Imagine a earthquake and aftermath of honey everywhere 😂

@JH-kh9lf Год назад

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

@rickjudgejr1435 Год назад

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

@igors.787 Год назад

And drum never washed.

@hi.jonathan3987 Год назад

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

@JimDean002 Год назад

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

@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.

@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

@Aereaphotography 2 года назад

Nice diesel forklift in the honey house

@Nick_865 Год назад

Its propane...

@Matty88K Год назад

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

@BrianGLee-bc7hj Год назад

Honey made a relative a wealthy man

@BrianGLee-bc7hj Год назад

In Michigan

@sappir26 Год назад

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 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.

@dwaynekoblitz6032 Год назад

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

@muhammadkabiruharuna4480 Год назад

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.

@zincfive 8 месяцев назад

Do a video of your wax extraction, please,,

@andrerousselsapet5219 Год назад

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 🤞🤞🤞🤞👌😊🐝🐝🐝🐝