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Buddy Hasten

Sep 9, 2026

62:41
Yep.
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"I said it again." Well, at some point early on as a leader back in military days, I noticed that people who had grievances, people who had problems, and, uh, uh, and people who didn't feel empowered to take action to fix the problem, that when they would start describing things to you, they.
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They did this.
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They did this to me.
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They are doing X.
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They are not doing...
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They, they, they.

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So it- if there's one thing in the industry today that you could fix, change tomorrow, wave a magic wand, what would that be?
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Okay.
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Imagine a tick on you, you know, you come in from the woods and you got a tick on you.
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Well, these varroa mites, if you look under a microscope, if you put a bee under there, it looks like a little tick on the bee.
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And these varroa mites, I don't know exactly where they came from, but they got introduced into sort of the North American bee population years ago.
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And they just are parasites, and they feed on the bees, and they just weaken them.
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And they really attack the bees' immune system and weakens the bees.
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And so winter is a very stressful time for the bees.

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So does the swarm start because the queen has decided to move or what starts the swarm?
Christian WeaverCORRESPONDENT
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Right.
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And, uh, one of the co-op principles, you know, sort of these founding principles of even being a co-op, is education and training.
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And so twice a year, all of the board members, we call them directors, from all of the co-ops all across the state come together in, in, in, you know, here at this conference.
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And so today, uh, Saturday, they came in, and they did very focused training.
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So we bring in trainers from, uh, all across the country-
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Yeah, 100%.
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So as you start trying to bring some of those factories back to America, manufacturing back, all of them take power.
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And so there's a ...

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