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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
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North Dakota

NASS Region 4 - 1 of 20 reporting states

2025 production30.8Mlbs

26.6% of the U.S. crop 15.0%

Yield / colony
67 lb
+39.6% vs US
Price / lb
$1.89
-38.0% vs US
Colonies
460,000
+281.4% vs US
Stressor load
76%
+30.5% vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/north-dakota
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for North Dakota 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 Dakota.

Colonies460,000 6.1% from 490,000
Yield / colony67 lb 9.5% from 74 lb
Production30.8M lbs 15.0% from 36.3M lbs
Price / lb$1.89 2.2% from $1.85
Crop value$58.3M 13.2% from $67.1M
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+40%67 lbs / colony
Price / lb-38%$1.89
Production / state avg+433%30.8M lbs
Crop value / state avg+230%$58.3M
Colonies / state avg+281%460,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 36.8%Other pests: 22.3%Pesticides: 10.6%Other: 1.2%Diseases: 3.5%Unknown: 1.4%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
NDU.S. baseline
Varroa mites36.8%
Other pests22.3%
Pesticides10.6%
Diseases3.5%
Unknown1.4%
Other1.2%

Varroa 36.8% 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 Dakota 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: 23.6%Q2 '24: 41.8%Q3 '24: 37.5%Q4 '24: 34.2%Q1 '25: 21.2%Q2 '25: 36.8%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 Dakota'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
24OPPORTUNITY

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% - 24
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Crop demand overlay

No crop selected · North Dakota

-bearing acres
$73benchmark fee
1.23 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 inventory114,913
Honey production40.9M lbs
Honey sales$101.4M
Operations with inventory152