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State Honey Profile 2023 harvest
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Missouri

NASS Region 3 - alternate public context

2023 production387Klbs

0.3% of the U.S. crop 18.0%

Yield / colony
43 lb
-10.4% vs US
Price / lb
$4.81
+57.7% vs US
Colonies
9,000
-92.5% vs US
Stressor load
30%
-48.9% vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/missouri
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Missouri 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 Missouri.

Colonies9,000 12.5% from 8,000
Yield / colony43 lb 4.9% from 41 lb
Production387K lbs 18.0% from 328K lbs
Price / lb$4.81 8.0% from $5.23
Crop value$1.86M 8.5% from $1.72M
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-10%43 lbs / colony
Price / lb+58%$4.81
Production / state avg-93%387K lbs
Crop value / state avg-89%$1.86M
Colonies / state avg-93%9,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 13.5%Other pests: 7.1%Pesticides: 0.5%Other: 2.1%Diseases: 0.5%Unknown: 6.0%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
MOU.S. baseline
Varroa mites13.5%
Other pests7.1%
Unknown6.0%
Other2.1%
Diseases0.5%
Pesticides0.5%

Varroa 13.5% 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 Missouri 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: 13.5%Q1 '24Q2 '24

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 Missouri'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
70OPPORTUNITY

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% - 70
70
Crop demand overlay

No crop selected · Missouri

-bearing acres
$20benchmark fee
8.38 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 inventory19,833
Honey production721K lbs
Honey sales$2.70M
Operations with inventory2,493