how is past rates related to Honey production
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United States honey production in 2017 from producers with less than five colonies totaled 599 thousand pounds
, down 22 percent from 2016. There were 20 thousand colonies from which honey was harvested in 2017, down 17 percent from 2016. The average yield was 30.0 pounds per colony in 2017, down six percent from the previous year.
United States honey prices increased two percent during 2017 to 215.6 cents per pound, compared to 211.9 cents per pound in 2016. United States and State level prices reflect the portions of honey sold through cooperatives, private, and retail channels. Prices for each color class are derived by weighting the quantities sold for each marketing channel. Prices for the 2016 crop reflect honey sold in 2016 and 2017. Some 2016 crop honey was sold in 2017, which caused some revisions to the 2016 crop prices.
For operations with five or more colonies, the average prices paid in 2017 for honey bee queens, packages, and nucs were $14, $76, and $107 respectively. The average prices paid in 2017 for operations with less than five colonies were $34 per queen, $117 per package, and $138 per nuc. For operations with five or more colonies, pollination income for 2017 was $435 million, up 29 percent from 2016. Other income from honey bees for operations with five or more colonies in 2017 was $163 million, up 10 percent from 2016.
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Well, the government has spoken, again, and their numbers look, actually, pretty encouraging all things considered. Bee Culture, if you recall, conducted a similar survey last November, using our Monthly Honey Report reporters. We’ve been doing that for some time and are usually close enough to the NASS numbers that we confidently make predictions that early. We missed it this year by quite a margin, but for a good reason. Our reporters gave us the number of colonies they had, and the number of colonies that produced honey. We projected that ratio onto the number of NASS colonies from 2016 to give us a working number of honey producing colonies in the U.S. for 2017. We also used the average pounds/colony number, 45, of our reporters and did the math for the number of colonies, and came up with a U.S. production for 2017 of 98.6 million pounds. That number came out to be two thirds of the NASS crop numbers. Why? We figured there would be 2.2 (as opposed to the 2.7) million colonies, each producing only 45 (as opposed to the 55) pounds each. We’ve been leaning in the direction that the number of beekeepers making honey as a first source of income, or even a second source are declining. Rather, they are concentrating on making bees, for other beekeepers who make honey or need more for pollination, or simply for themselves to increase their pollination capability, and thus income. The snap shot of colony and honey production on page 28 shows colony number remaining pretty steady for the past 25 years, while honey production has slowly, but steadily decreased during the same time frame.
What’s also shown on the cost comparison chart is that the costs of keeping bees for commercial beekeepers continue to escalate, but that the prices for both honey and pollination have increased also. So, to make the same income, one could generalize, you don’t have to make as much honey because you are getting paid more for it, and every colony you put into pollination earns more money each year. So a stable colony number keeps a beekeeper stable…certainly not rich, but at least breathing air.
With the exception of California (up 2.5 million pounds) and Minnesota (essentially flat), every one of the top 10 states produced less honey this year than last, and combined produced only 73% of the U.S. crop, compared to the normal 75% or more.
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