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There is no Whole Foods in West Virginia. I know you were generalizing but thought I would mention a counter-case.

I would work more on my aquaponics and recirculating aquaculture in temperate weather environments.

I'm fascinated with farm-tech. I went into tech because there isn't money in farming. My passion is farming. A fusion of the two is my ideal job.

That is a direct quote from the article. The article states $36B as well, not $360B.

"None of this helps the image of big business. Paying tax seems to be unavoidable for individuals but optional for firms. Rules are unbending for citizens, and up for negotiation when it comes to companies. Nor do profits translate into jobs as once they did. In 1990 the top three carmakers in Detroit had a market capitalisation of $36 billion and 1.2m employees. In 2014 the top three firms in Silicon Valley, with a market capitalisation of over $1 trillion, had only 137,000 employees."

From the Article: "Verizon predecessor New Jersey Bell committed to a statewide broadband buildout in a 1993 agreement with state authorities in exchange for a price regulation overhaul that the telco requested."

I assume part of the takeover/merger that happened also merged the previous responsibilities.

They are your only source on the small "hobby" scale (maybe wax and pollen too but that is more labor intensive) but pollination contracts aren't open to you until you're doing this full time.

Now, Hobby scale honey can usually be sold for more than wholesale honey that the pollination guys use to offload their crop so hopefully that makes up the difference.

For me, I'll never catch up if I keep having the massive losses I've been having -- even if I sell my honey for $7/lb ($8 total including the jar and label). The wholesale price is around $2-2.50/lb

Yes, this is true -- in large agriculture, pollination is where the money is in beekeeping. I know pollination contracts stipulate "frames of bees" to be considered a hive (for example you might need 20 "frames of bees" to get paid for that hive) but I also think you're getting weaker hives out there for pollination. So while the price isn't going up, the size of the product is going down.

Same concept as the cereal boxes. They look the same from the outside, but they put less cereal in it and charge you the same price instead of raising the price.

Buying more and more bees is a very expensive solution. Perhaps I'm just a poor beekeeper (maybe true?) but I would have to sell my honey at untenable prices if I was looking to make money on my beekeeping.

For example, I've spent $1600 on bees and equipment, I've harvested 3 gallons of honey. I would have to sell that honey at $44/Pound to break even. Now hopefully over the long term this goes down a lot as the upfront capital investments spread out over the years.

My bee losses have been huge though. The first year I had 3 hives, lost 2. The second year I had 5 hives and lost 3, last year I had 5 hives and lost 4. Buying bees at $130/hive isn't sustainable (except through my charity) if I wanted to actually make any money at this, especially on a small scale.

I suppose it depends on the show. The Superbowl is widely considered to be a family friendly event with lots of children watching. I can see a nip slip being more of an issue with that audience.

I did a hybrid for my first freelance. I charged hourly, but because I was new and unsure still in my skills (and had never actually set up what they were asking for before), I set a maximum upper bound for the client so they wouldn't be punished by my inexperience.

For example I charged them $75/hr and estimated the job would take me 8 hours. ($600) I told them my fee was $75/hr with a maximum cost of 20 hours ($1500) needed to do the project.

This gave them an upper bound for the maximum they would have to pay me so they could budget/get approval. The job was small enough that scope creep wasn't really an issue though.

I ended up charging them $800 as I forgot to include travel time to their location. First estimate was remote. I charged them full $75/hr for my travel time.