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TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN WINTERS
Honeybees are one of the most important pollinators on the planet. Their labor singularly accounts for up to one third of our nation's annual food supply, contributing about $15 billion in added value to vegetable, fruit, fiber, and nut harvests. In Texas, about ninety crops-melons, cucumbers, apples, cotton, canola, citrus, among others-owe their well-being to the honeybee. For commercial beekeepers, who truck their colonies thousands of miles cross-country, it's this pollination process, much more than honey harvesting, that constitutes their livelihood: A beekeeper can earn upward of $150 per hive for leaving his bees at a farm or...
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