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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
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North Carolina

NASS Region 2 - 20 of 20 reporting states

2025 production672Klbs

0.6% of the U.S. crop 12.0%

Yield / colony
42 lb
-12.5% vs US
Price / lb
$7.99
+162.0% vs US
Colonies
16,000
-86.7% vs US
Stressor load
38%
-34.4% vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/north-carolina
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for North Carolina 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 North Carolina.

Colonies16,000 6.7% from 15,000
Yield / colony42 lb 5.0% from 40 lb
Production672K lbs 12.0% from 600K lbs
Price / lb$7.99 26.8% from $6.30
Crop value$5.37M 42.0% from $3.78M
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+162%$7.99
Production / state avg-88%672K lbs
Crop value / state avg-70%$5.37M
Colonies / state avg-87%16,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 26.3%Other pests: 6.9%Pesticides: 0.7%Other: 2.0%Diseases: 0.6%Unknown: 1.6%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
NCU.S. baseline
Varroa mites26.3%
Other pests6.9%
Other2.0%
Unknown1.6%
Pesticides0.7%
Diseases0.6%

Varroa 26.3% 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 North Carolina 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: 29.2%Q2 '24: 16.2%Q3 '24: 14.0%Q4 '24: 20.7%Q1 '25: 6.0%Q2 '25: 26.3%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

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 North Carolina'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
62OPPORTUNITY

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

Crop demandw 40% - -
-
Pollination ratew 25% - -
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Supply tightnessw 20% - -
-
Colony healthw 15% - 62
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Crop demand overlay

Blueberry · North Carolina

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-bearing acres
$62benchmark fee
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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 inventory37,396
Honey production1.03M lbs
Honey sales$5.36M
Operations with inventory2,938