Farm Budgets: Turning Your Beekeeping Hobby into a Business

June 20, 2022

Hear Jon LaPorte, Michigan State University Extension Farm Business Management Educator, present on how beekeepers can turn their beekeeping hobby into a business. Jon specializes in farm business analysis, business transition, income tax education, and general farm business management topics such economics of technologies and return on investment. Beekeepers who started keeping bees as a hobby and who hope to turn their operation into a business will need to consider organizational structures, record keeping, and more.

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