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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dennis Crowley" data-source="post: 3216" data-attributes="member: 63">It was, that was then this is now. There is plenty of talk on this forum and elsewhere about beekeepers getting together to become packers, or cozy up to a packer or pack and sell our own honey etc, all packer/marketer's jobs, not the beekeeping side.APINZ was formed to include all those parts because the Beekeeping industry is made up of all those parts, and to grow and be successful we need all them working together. None of you (apart from hobbyists) spend your working life to full lots of drums with honey and not sell them. When the honey is in the drum that is the end of doing beekeeping work for that honey. It now falls into packing/ selling/ marketing either locally or internationally. As I have said before, there are two people with their hand on a drum of honey, us as beekeepers producing a very fine product the worls wants, and a packer/marketer selling that product to the world, and out of that sale to the mom n pop and family at the end of the food chain, we all get paid.You and I make no money from beekeeping, I only make money when I hire out by bees or produce a crop that someone wants.</blockquote>

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