I was wondering if they would get to the root of it. Sure enough, they did..... "The price of some of that extra work will get passed on to the consumer. The average retail price of honey has roughly doubled since 2006, for instance. And Kim Kaplan, a researcher with the USDA, points out that pollination fees -- the amount beekeepers charge to cart their bees around to farms and pollinate fruit and nut trees -- has approximately doubled over the same period." Put a little profit in there, and someone will figure out how to make it happen..... |