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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
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New York

NASS Region 1 - 10 of 20 reporting states

2025 production2.91Mlbs

2.5% of the U.S. crop 5.7%

Yield / colony
56 lb
+16.7% vs US
Price / lb
$5.14
+68.5% vs US
Colonies
52,000
-56.9% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/new-york
01

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for New York 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 New York.

Colonies52,000 0.0% from 52,000
Yield / colony56 lb 5.7% from 53 lb
Production2.91M lbs 5.7% from 2.76M lbs
Price / lb$5.14 5.2% from $5.42
Crop value$15.0M 0.2% from $14.9M
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+17%56 lbs / colony
Price / lb+69%$5.14
Production / state avg-50%2.91M lbs
Crop value / state avg-15%$15.0M
Colonies / state avg-57%52,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 14.7%Other pests: 2.1%Pesticides: -Other: 2.4%Diseases: 0.8%Unknown: 1.0%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
NYU.S. baseline
Varroa mites14.7%
Other2.4%
Other pests2.1%
Unknown1.0%
Diseases0.8%
Pesticides-

Varroa 14.7% 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 New York 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: 21.5%Q2 '24: 39.3%Q3 '24: 24.1%Q4 '24: 31.5%Q1 '25: 29.2%Q2 '25: 14.7%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 New York'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
18OPPORTUNITY

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

Crop demandw 40% - 46,000
3
Pollination ratew 25% - $86
41
Supply tightnessw 20% - 0.9
20
Colony healthw 15% - -
-
Crop demand overlay

Apple · New York

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46,000bearing acres
$86benchmark fee
0.61 hives/acstocking rate
28,092implied hives needed

Apple alone implies 28,092 colony placements against 52,000 honey-producing colonies in-state - a 0.5x 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 inventory47,612
Honey production2.85M lbs
Honey sales$10.5M
Operations with inventory2,118