Little Mick said:
This topic sure has sparked debate! ...
I am shocked to hear that there are people out there who would cut with corn syrup. It baffles me.
Yes it has sparked a debate. Thats not a bad thing as long as nobody gets mad about it :drunken_smilie:
Hey LM be sure to understand that as far as I know there has not been a case of a U.S. supplier cutting their honey with corn syrup. Ony China and debate about Brazil that has to my knowledge never been confirmed.
Honey like any other product can be priced expensive or cheap depending. Hell some beer costs .50 a bottle while other stuff costs $3 a bottle. The 3 dollar bottle may be better to some, but the .50 bottle may be better to others. It just depends on what you like and what you want to do with it.
For example I only use one chemical on my hives (Fumagilin-b)and I only use it in the fall after my harvest or in early spring at least a month before the first spring flow. It is an antibiotic that combats Nosema disease.
Doing this helps me produce a different product, but that comes at a price since I tend to lose more hives to mites then most might so my costs are higher.
I never heat filter mine. I only strain it let, it sit, scrape the wax off the top, and bottle. This gives me a raw product that helps with the price.
Others may use checkmite or XXX for the mites, this for that and that for this, then heat and preasure filter it. That is not wrong, it is just different and thus they may be able to price their honey different, and when they do I don't get the least bit mad that they are selling theirs for less then me. Where I get mad is when the imported stuff is dumped on the market in the U.S. and Canada. :cheers:
OSKAAR and anyone else in Cal should note that they are spoiled when it comes to honey prices. That is one area where a large number of bee keepers actually get paid a huge amount of $ for polination. This helps reduce their cost and helps keep the price down a bit.
