date:Mar 26, 2013
The average price for all classes of honey sold through all channels was a record 195.1c a lb, up 11% from an upwardly revised 176.5c a lb in 2011, the U.S.D.A. said. The average price at retail was 340.5c a lb, up 8% from 314.7c in 2011, and at the cooperative and private level was 187.8c, up 12% from 167.7c. The total value of honey produced in 2012 was $286,976,000, up 10% from $261,850,000 a year earlier.
Production of all types of honey totaled 147,092,000 lbs in 2012, down 1% from 148,357