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On Beeing
99% Invisible
The Rise of the Commercial Beekeeper
After World War I, people kept innovating and honey production went from family farming to a giant commercial operation. By the end of World War II, there was something like 5.9 million commercial bee hives in the United States. As farmers grew more crops, commercial beekeepers started earning more money by renting out their bees as pollinators. But while pollination is big business in the U.S., actually, the US is pretty much the only country that does this.
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