HFCS-55

[mo bee]

Does anyone know where I can buy HCFS-55 close. I live in southwest MO, about 30 min from Ark, OK, and Kan border. I have found a place in Kansas City, but that is a 3 hr. drive

[Jim Fischer]

Check with Bob Harrison, who posts here fairly
often. He'd know, and he might even sell you some
of his "at cost".

I assume that he buys in a large enough quantity
to make "his cost" cheaper than anything else
you'd find locally.

[Bob Harrison]

I am a three hour drive from you also. I sell to a couple local guys small amounts but if you need larger amounts you need to buy off a tanker. Due to the drought about all the 55% I have got left is enough to survive feed if the bees run low this winter but not always the case.

Micheal Meyers in Springfield, Missouri came up once when we got a tanker load but about drove us crazy filling 4 gallon buckets. He was lucky we had plenty of help. He has not been back so he must be getting syrup in your area. He is not on a large enough scale to handle a tanker load by himself unless he is going in with others. You might check with Micheal in Springfield. He is in the phone book under honey. Not sure what he calls his honey farm.

We use 275 gallon forklift totes and will let beekeepers fill 55 gallon drums but discourage pails as they are hard to fill as the tanker hose is very heavy and takes two people to pick up. shots a four inch stream. Drivers are in a hurry.

We can not buy 55% fructose from the syrup places in Kansas City (only 42%) so we go in on a tanker at least twice a year.

The place you are talking about in Kansas is the place the tanker (4-5000 gallons) arrives at. Big concrete lot which helps in bad weather. We have unloaded in pouring rain! Commercial beekeepers take most the load and the bee supply house fills a couple 275 gallon totes to supply the local small beekeepers.
If we did not go in the supply house would have to sell 42% purchased locally (which has been done before).
Tankers come out of Minnesota. You can order a half load 2000 to 2500 gallons but you pay half load price which is higher.
The bee supply house being able to buy with us off the tanker lets local beekeepers buy fructose in pails at close to tanker price. Tanker price in the Midwest is several cents cheaper than what we pay in California.
We have got two places locally which sell 42% but they usually will not fill 55 gallon drums. One will only fill totes and the other (Liquid sugars) can sometimes be talked into filling drums on a slow day but not pails.
The place in Kansas will fill pails for you at a reasonable price but again as you say a three hour drive.

[Brian Suchan]

Micheal Meyers in Springfield, Missouri came up once when we got a tanker load but about drove us crazy filling 4 gallon buckets. He was lucky we had plenty of help

Holy Cow filling 55 gal barrels is almost a pain in the but I can't image how bad 4 gal buckets would be. That & I'm sure there was a mess involved some way or another.

[arkansasbee]

I've found a local source for hfcs in Fayetteville, AR. But they only have 62/43 and 43/43. Does anyone know which will be better for my bees, and how they compare to HFCS 55?
Thanks for your help.

[Pat Brady]

Some of the members of our bee club gets HFCS in Dupo ILL. I don't know the address but can get and post it later. It's $16 and some change for 5 gal.