Greetings from Oregon

[SCFarms]

I am a commercial beekeeper from Oregon and probably the youngest one too, I’m 23 years old and I have around 700 colonies, none of my family members are in the business so every thing I have I started from scratch including a swinger forklift and two one ton flatbeds (95 F350 powerstroke and a 99 F550 powerstroke). I discovered this site a few days ago a have really enjoyed reading some of your old post and even though I feel like I have had good luck with my bees so far there is still lots more to learn from the good people of this site, and hopefully I can be some benefit to others as well.

Thank you,
SCFarms

[eivindm]

Welcome to this forum! There are mostly hobby beekeepers around here, so it is great to see another  professional beekeeper here too, so we can get a glimpse of the wonderful world of beekeeping from an other angle :-)  700 is incredibly many in Norwegian measures.  A professional fulltime beekeeper I know has 430 hives.  In Norway there are almost no money in pollination.  It is all about the honey, and especially the heather honey gives a good price :-)

[Cindi]

SCFarms. Welcome to our forum, so nice that you found this place.  This WILL be a place that you can tell us some of your stories and tales, we welcome these and love to read and listen.  You have a huge endeavour in what you are doing, I have 10 colonies and I think they are alot of work, I could never imagine that number.  Good for you!!!  Yes, and I would say at your age, you got something good going on.  Stick around, enjoy your stay with us, here you will also make some new friends, a great place to play.  Have the most wonderful and awesomely great day, love life.  Cindi