The Honey Index

State profile

Massachusetts

No annual honey survey series is published for this geography. USDA reports it only inside regional or "other states" aggregates.

What we can still show

Census-of-agriculture baselines, regional pollination benchmarks, and national context remain available even when the annual honey series is suppressed.

Census baselinePollination benchmarksNational context

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts.

Colonies-latest row from -

Yield / colony-latest row from -

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Price / lb-latest row from -

Crop value-latest row from -

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--

Price / lb--

Production / state avg--

Crop value / state avg--

Colonies / state avg--

Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate

MAU.S. baseline

Varroa mites6.6%

Other2.1%

Other pests0.8%

Diseases0.5%

Pesticides0.0%

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Varroa 6.6% state vs. 27.3% U.S.

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 Massachusetts colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate

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

Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Massachusetts'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

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

Cranberry · Massachusetts

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-bearing acres

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2.18 hives/acstocking rate

-implied hives needed

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 inventory9,281

Honey production496K lbs

Honey sales$2.91M

Operations with inventory710