Welcome to A. & M. 's Honeybee Farm. 

Beehive rentals: Currently our hive rental numbers are extremely limited due to the lack of tariffs on IMPORTED honey which have not gone into effect. National honey prices being undercut by foreign imported honey drastically reduces our budget as to how many beehives we can split in the spring time.

AVOID the "buzzwords"

Honey is often sold under a pretense marketting scheme of "organic" and "unfiltered". These are "buzzwords". and not the good kind! All honey is organic unless the label on the back or front states otherwise. If you see something that says "sauce" it may be high fructose corn syrup blended with honey flavoring or less than a certain percentage of honey.  

I can think of a few popular chain resteraunt franchises out there that offer packets of honey and they are NOT true honey, but "sauce". 

"Unfiltered" - To be fair. you can define a filter as a device that removes particles of a specific size and that is a filter. Large particles, small particles, particles the size of sand. Regardless. Unfiltered honey is just a buzzword that people try and say their honey is more "pure" in natural product. but in reality if the bottle is clear. it is filtered! There is nothing wrong with filtering honey, infact we "strain" or "filter" our honey down below 100 microns. This is so the product is CLEAR and free of debris. (nobody likes munching on wax particles in their bottle of honey. Regardless, the healthy properties in the honey remain. 

The Harsh Honey Facts

Honey "dumping" in the US is a major issue. Brazil, Argentina and other countries take excessive amounts of honey and send it to the US. This drives down the price of US honey because they are selling it at a much cheeper price to U.S. repackers that often label the honey under a store brand.

 It may sound like a great idea for the consumer's budget. However, these honey products often are left unchecked and often introduce honeybee pathogens into the United States (Such as Nosema and Foulbrood disease).   Honeybees will scavenge the discarded honey bottles from landfills, thus bringing back diseases to their hive. 

REAL TIME REPORTED MARKET VALUE (DECEMBER 2026)

2026 required baseline price for surplus: $3.75-$4.00

Argentina honey dumping price: $1.32

Average price being paid to US beekeepers per pound: $1.99 (LOSS)

LINK: https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvmhoney.pdf

Again, we ask that you purchase honey from local beekeepers and do not contribute to foreign honey markets that dump honey into our US markets and bankrupt our beekeepers. 

We all hear the horror stories of what really is happening every year, Where honeybees die off. When it comes to two times of the year we see full-on hive Failure. It is October and February each year. It happens almost on the dot. We see a healthy, MITE FREE, disease free beehive completely die off. Thousands of dead bees all on the bottom boards of each of our hives. With almost 68% of the hives dead. 

I can set my watch to this. Considering we've lost hundreds and hundreds of hives. Where all the health of the hives were nearly amazing and then the hives just flatout DIE. I decided to start my own studies to see what is going on! 

After a substantial amount of investigation, consulting with other beekeepers of the past, and using Cameras, data logging and tracking of honeybee stock origins (with thousands of dollars invested in this project out of my own pocket book) . I came to a very harsh conclussion under my observations. That CCD is very much tied to the failure of genetics. I had relatives that owned beehives before the 1980s, before the early 2000s and the observations and reviews of their beekeeping notes they took as professionals, lined up with a very key point in time. That collapses of bee collonies became the worst after the early 2000s.

 Tracing this problem, it falls back to honeybees imported from too warm of climates outside of the Country back in the Early 2000s. Under a temporary honeybee replacement emergency. Substantial losses of honeybees occured in the California central valley. A regulatory agency of the U.S. granted a very temporary permission for honeybees to be imported from Australia. 

 This would be where we saw honeybee stocks begin to faulter. Their ability to winter shifted from day to night. It was an instant failure of genetics in the honeybee nest, which require good wintering habits in order to thrive in the winter. Sure, Varroa was a massive issue after the 1980s due to imported pests and diseases. But nothing this tragic in hive losses until 2000-2010. From there, it cascades as these bees begin being bread into our U.S. stocks.

TLDR: Simply put. The "modernized" American honeybee does not know how to handle preperation for cold weather anymore. - I could go on and on and tell you about the notes and findings of mine. But the results were fairly conclussive. American honeybees just don't know how to prep their nest for winter and manage nest behavior once the cold weather sets in, compared to European hives! 

Honeybee-stock genetics dillution is a massive issue. 

So why not import original honeybee stocks from Italy and the Balkans regions? - It would be nice. But a nice little law on the books criminalizes re-importing honeybees, "germ plasm" and genetics from their Country of ORIGIN. This little law called Honeybee Act (codified at 7 U.S.C. Chapter 11, specifically §281) , substantially criminalizes the act. So this means the honeybee industry has zero hope. At "refreshing" their stocks. As honeybees originate from EUROPE. not the United States!