Institute teachers tour Adee Honey Farms' storage warehouse. Honey is stored in 55-gallon drums while beeswax is melted down into 40 lbs. bricks. The drums of honey are sold when market prices for honey are favorable while the beeswax is used for everything from candle making to wax coatings on a variety of materials.
by Spencer Cody
Edmunds Central Science teacher
Twenty-nine teachers from 15 school districts across South Dakota participated in the Honey Production Education Institute Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and 24 in Roscoe thanks to funding from a Specialty Crop Block grant through the USDA.
The attending teachers spent the two days learning about how bees produce honey and wax commercially and the important role honey production plays in our nation's food supply.
On Friday the group toured the Adee Honey Farms plant in Roscoe where nearly 40,000 bee colonies will be processed for honey production.....
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