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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
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Ohio

NASS Region 1 - 19 of 20 reporting states

2025 production765Klbs

0.7% of the U.S. crop 39.0%

Yield / colony
45 lb
-6.3% vs US
Price / lb
$6.45
+111.5% vs US
Colonies
17,000
-85.9% vs US
Stressor load
82%
+40.6% vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/ohio
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Ohio 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 Ohio.

Colonies17,000 22.7% from 22,000
Yield / colony45 lb 21.1% from 57 lb
Production765K lbs 39.0% from 1.25M lbs
Price / lb$6.45 18.6% from $5.44
Crop value$4.93M 27.7% from $6.82M
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-6%45 lbs / colony
Price / lb+111%$6.45
Production / state avg-87%765K lbs
Crop value / state avg-72%$4.93M
Colonies / state avg-86%17,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 39.3%Other pests: 17.7%Pesticides: 7.0%Other: 13.6%Diseases: 1.7%Unknown: 2.4%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
OHU.S. baseline
Varroa mites39.3%
Other pests17.7%
Other13.6%
Pesticides7.0%
Unknown2.4%
Diseases1.7%

Varroa 39.3% 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 Ohio colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate
0.0%15.0%30.0%45.0%60.0%Q1 '24: 35.3%Q2 '24: 35.0%Q3 '24: 34.1%Q4 '24: 53.5%Q1 '25: 24.0%Q2 '25: 39.3%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 Ohio'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
18OPPORTUNITY

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% - 18
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Crop demand overlay

Pumpkin · Ohio

Open Pumpkin profile →
-bearing acres
$84benchmark fee
1.01 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 inventory38,802
Honey production1.83M lbs
Honey sales$5.70M
Operations with inventory3,702