honey production

We recently reported that honey production across the Pacific Northwest dropped year-over-year. It doesn’t look like the PNW was the only area that saw a decrease. Honey production nationwide dropped as well. Travis Averill with NASS said this is part of an ongoing decline over the past two decades. " ...

According to NASS, honey production across the Pacific Northwest dropped roughly 14% from 2020 numbers. Idaho's 2021 honey production, at 3.00 million pounds, was 20% lower year-over-year. There were 100,000 honey producing colonies, 7,000 lower than the previous year ...

We saw a big drop in the number of honeybee colonies across the U.S. last year, and that resulted in a sizeable drop in honey production in 2020. Gary Crawford breaks down the latest USDA numbers. Another possible reason for the drop; the pandemic ...