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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
Rank#15

Iowa

NASS Region 1 - 15 of 20 reporting states

2025 production2.11Mlbs

1.8% of the U.S. crop 23.3%

Yield / colony
62 lb
+29.2% vs US
Price / lb
$5.43
+78.0% vs US
Colonies
34,000
-71.8% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/iowa
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Iowa 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 Iowa.

Colonies34,000 17.1% from 41,000
Yield / colony62 lb 7.5% from 67 lb
Production2.11M lbs 23.3% from 2.75M lbs
Price / lb$5.43 42.1% from $3.82
Crop value$11.4M 9.1% from $10.5M
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+29%62 lbs / colony
Price / lb+78%$5.43
Production / state avg-64%2.11M lbs
Crop value / state avg-35%$11.4M
Colonies / state avg-72%34,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 15.4%Other pests: 21.9%Pesticides: 21.3%Other: 2.8%Diseases: 1.3%Unknown: -VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
IAU.S. baseline
Other pests21.9%
Pesticides21.3%
Varroa mites15.4%
Other2.8%
Diseases1.3%
Unknown-

Varroa 15.4% state vs. 27.3% U.S.

02

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 Iowa 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: 15.0%Q2 '24: 17.1%Q3 '24: 37.5%Q4 '24: 9.8%Q1 '25: 8.1%Q2 '25: 15.4%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

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

03

Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Iowa'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
0OPPORTUNITY

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

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

No crop selected · Iowa

-bearing acres
$86benchmark fee
0.61 hives/acstocking rate
-implied hives needed
04

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 inventory50,802
Honey production2.10M lbs
Honey sales$5.49M
Operations with inventory1,735