If you need honey bees for pollination, you may want to keep your own bees. However, maintaining large numbers of robust hives year-round is hard work and most growers prefer to rent hives. Moving bees is hard work, and almost no crop plants in Georgia yield surplus honey.
Pollination is a valuable service that warrants fair compensation.
See your county Extension agent for help in locating pollination services. A bee hive is made up of stacked boxes called supers . As colonies grow during a season, beekeepers add supers to accommodate the growing bee populations and honey stores. A very tall hive is probably strong, but don't rely on external appearances. Strong colony with large population.