it really is. it gets to your gut and makes you sick because this is your livelihood. you put all this effort into it. you get to a point where you're feeling really good about things and watch it just vaporize before your eyes. it's just really a sickening feeling. >> what would happen if you had another one of those years? >> i just don't want to think about it. i don't want to think about it. so i just play real conservative and not give up my honey crop here in texas. i'd rather go with a bird in a hand rather than two in the bush. >> since randy feels sending his bees away for pollination could be killing them, he's focusing more on honey production, a far less lucrative use of his bees but much safer. the honey from the uncapping process and the extractor gets pulled together in a sump. >> yep. >> goes through the heat exchanger. >> basically pushed up into this