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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
Rank#11

Oregon

NASS Region 5 - 11 of 20 reporting states

2025 production2.35Mlbs

2.0% of the U.S. crop 17.8%

Yield / colony
27 lb
-43.8% vs US
Price / lb
$2.09
-31.5% vs US
Colonies
87,000
-27.9% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/oregon
01

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Oregon 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 Oregon.

Colonies87,000 3.6% from 84,000
Yield / colony27 lb 20.6% from 34 lb
Production2.35M lbs 17.8% from 2.86M lbs
Price / lb$2.09 19.0% from $2.58
Crop value$4.91M 33.4% from $7.37M
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-44%27 lbs / colony
Price / lb-31%$2.09
Production / state avg-59%2.35M lbs
Crop value / state avg-72%$4.91M
Colonies / state avg-28%87,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 10.2%Other pests: -Pesticides: 10.7%Other: 13.8%Diseases: 6.6%Unknown: 1.0%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
ORU.S. baseline
Other13.8%
Pesticides10.7%
Varroa mites10.2%
Diseases6.6%
Unknown1.0%
Other pests-

Varroa 10.2% 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 Oregon colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate
0.0%17.5%35.0%52.5%70.0%Q1 '24: 24.3%Q2 '24: 5.3%Q3 '24: 66.2%Q4 '24: 45.8%Q1 '25: 27.2%Q2 '25: 10.2%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 Oregon'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
10OPPORTUNITY

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

Crop demandw 40% - 11,000
1
Pollination ratew 25% - $60
29
Supply tightnessw 20% - 0.1
3
Colony healthw 15% - -
-
Crop demand overlay

Cherry · Oregon

Open Cherry profile →
11,000bearing acres
$60benchmark fee
1.48 hives/acstocking rate
16,256implied hives needed

Cherry alone implies 16,256 colony placements against 87,000 honey-producing colonies in-state - a 0.2x 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 inventory127,382
Honey production4.37M lbs
Honey sales$12.7M
Operations with inventory1,648