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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
Rank#6

Michigan

NASS Region 1 - 6 of 20 reporting states

2025 production3.74Mlbs

3.2% of the U.S. crop 25.3%

Yield / colony
42 lb
-12.5% vs US
Price / lb
$3.27
+7.2% vs US
Colonies
89,000
-26.2% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/michigan
01

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Michigan 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 Michigan.

Colonies89,000 8.5% from 82,000
Yield / colony42 lb 31.1% from 61 lb
Production3.74M lbs 25.3% from 5.00M lbs
Price / lb$3.27 6.5% from $3.07
Crop value$12.2M 20.4% from $15.4M
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-13%42 lbs / colony
Price / lb+7%$3.27
Production / state avg-35%3.74M lbs
Crop value / state avg-31%$12.2M
Colonies / state avg-26%89,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 9.0%Other pests: 5.2%Pesticides: -Other: 8.0%Diseases: -Unknown: 0.5%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
MIU.S. baseline
Varroa mites9.0%
Other8.0%
Other pests5.2%
Unknown0.5%
Diseases-
Pesticides-

Varroa 9.0% 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 Michigan 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: 4.3%Q2 '24: 24.4%Q3 '24: 31.3%Q4 '24: 26.7%Q1 '25: 4.9%Q2 '25: 9.0%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

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

03

Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Michigan'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.

derived
16OPPORTUNITY

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

Crop demandw 40% - 37,000
3
Pollination ratew 25% - $86
41
Supply tightnessw 20% - 0.4
9
Colony healthw 15% - -
-
Crop demand overlay

Apple · Michigan

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37,000bearing acres
$86benchmark fee
0.61 hives/acstocking rate
22,595implied hives needed

Apple alone implies 22,595 colony placements against 89,000 honey-producing colonies in-state - a 0.3x gap typically met by migratory operations.

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 inventory98,758
Honey production6.17M lbs
Honey sales$18.0M
Operations with inventory2,177