Document Type
Circular
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Keywords
bees, bee culture
Publication Date
1974
Publisher
Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota State University; U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Circular No.
EC 565
Pages
15
Description
Beekeeping has provided many persons with a satisfying and continually interesting hobby. To others it means a profitable sideline easily fitted to a farming or other full-time occupation. The commercial beekeeper finds that this phase of agriculture provides him with an independent and respectable way of making a comfortable living. The purpose of this bulletin is to provide persons who are interested in starting a few colonies of bees a source of basic information suited to the Northern Great Plains conditions. South Dakota provides the essential natural ingredients for the production of sizable crops of high quality honey. Honey bees also provide South Dakota farmers and ranchers with vital pollination of alfalfa and other crops, the important production of which are an important part of the state's agricultural economy.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Walstrom, R.J.; Kantack, B.H.; and Berndt, W.L., "Beekeeping in South Dakota" (1974). SDSU Extension Circulars. 510.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/extension_circ/510