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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
Rank#14

Georgia

NASS Region 2 - 14 of 20 reporting states

2025 production2.14Mlbs

1.9% of the U.S. crop 15.5%

Yield / colony
32 lb
-33.3% vs US
Price / lb
$3.68
+20.7% vs US
Colonies
67,000
-44.4% vs US
Stressor load
50%
-14.3% vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/georgia
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Georgia pairs production, colony count, yield, price, and colony stressors without filling suppressed values.

Honey profile

2024 → 2025 movement

Year-over-year change across every reported honey metric for Georgia.

Colonies67,000 4.7% from 64,000
Yield / colony32 lb 10.3% from 29 lb
Production2.14M lbs 15.5% from 1.86M lbs
Price / lb$3.68 6.4% from $3.46
Crop value$7.89M 22.9% from $6.42M
Benchmark

Indexed vs. U.S.

Each metric as a percentage above or below the U.S. baseline (center line = U.S. average).

derived
Yield / colony-33%32 lbs / colony
Price / lb+21%$3.68
Production / state avg-63%2.14M lbs
Crop value / state avg-55%$7.89M
Colonies / state avg-44%67,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

Share of Georgia colonies hit by each stressor (April-June), against the U.S. profile. Hover any axis or bar to compare.

aggregate
Varroa mites: 20.0%Other pests: 7.5%Pesticides: 1.9%Other: 2.4%Diseases: 1.0%Unknown: 17.0%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
GAU.S. baseline
Varroa mites20.0%
Unknown17.0%
Other pests7.5%
Other2.4%
Pesticides1.9%
Diseases1.0%

Varroa 20.0% state vs. 27.3% U.S.

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Over time

The arc matters as much as the latest number. Stressor pressure is the one metric we can already track quarter to quarter for every state.

Varroa pressure, quarter by quarter

Share of Georgia colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate
0.0%12.5%25.0%37.5%50.0%Q1 '24: 18.5%Q2 '24: 31.3%Q3 '24: 31.9%Q4 '24: 32.0%Q1 '25: 25.9%Q2 '25: 20.0%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

Official Honey Bee Colonies stressor rows only. This chart does not synthesize honey, yield, or pollination time-series shapes.

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Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Georgia's crop demand, regional pollination fee, local colony supply, and colony health pressure visible as separate weighted inputs.

Opportunity index

Where the gap is

A transparent, weighted blend - directional context for pollination planning, not a forecast.

limited
50OPPORTUNITY

Composite of the four factors below, each scored 0-100 then weighted.

Crop demandw 40% - -
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Pollination ratew 25% - -
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Supply tightnessw 20% - -
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Colony healthw 15% - 50
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Crop demand overlay

Blueberry · Georgia

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-bearing acres
$62benchmark fee
2.05 hives/acstocking rate
-implied hives needed
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Baselines & context

The closing cards keep structural Census baselines and related reporting states visible without mixing them into the annual honey row.

Census baseline

2022 Census of Agriculture

Structural baseline - independent of the annual honey survey.

direct
Colony inventory174,196
Honey production4.99M lbs
Honey sales$15.6M
Operations with inventory1,891