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State Honey Profile 2023 harvest
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Utah

NASS Region 4 - alternate public context

2023 production1.01Mlbs

0.9% of the U.S. crop 15.7%

Yield / colony
42 lb
-12.5% vs US
Price / lb
$1.92
-37.0% vs US
Colonies
24,000
-80.1% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/utah
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Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Utah 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 Utah.

Colonies24,000 7.7% from 26,000
Yield / colony42 lb 8.7% from 46 lb
Production1.01M lbs 15.7% from 1.20M lbs
Price / lb$1.92 36.0% from $3.00
Crop value$1.94M 46.1% from $3.59M
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-37%$1.92
Production / state avg-83%1.01M lbs
Crop value / state avg-89%$1.94M
Colonies / state avg-80%24,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

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

aggregate
Varroa mites: 9.6%Other pests: -Pesticides: 1.2%Other: 0.7%Diseases: 2.4%Unknown: 8.8%VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
UTU.S. baseline
Varroa mites9.6%
Unknown8.8%
Diseases2.4%
Pesticides1.2%
Other0.7%
Other pests-

Varroa 9.6% 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 Utah 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: 13.2%Q2 '24: 9.6%Q1 '24Q2 '24

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 Utah'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
0OPPORTUNITY

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

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

Cherry · Utah

Open Cherry profile →
2,900bearing acres
$27benchmark fee
1.75 hives/acstocking rate
5,075implied hives needed

Cherry alone implies 5,075 colony placements against 24,000 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 inventory24,409
Honey production1.03M lbs
Honey sales$2.79M
Operations with inventory787