Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and Coase
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How Much Money Does It Cost to Grow Almonds?
If you take bees into an almond orchard, you might rent them for a 10-day service while the crop is—while the trees are blooming. For $150, $175, maybe $200 per colony, you might put two colonies per acre. So $300, $350 an acre is how much the almond grower would pay the beekeeper. A little perspective on that is that's going to work out to be not huge in the spreadsheet of an almond grower, maybe a 5% or 7%.
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