This statistic shows the ten U.S. states where the highest amount of honey was produced in 2022. According to the report, North Dakota produced approximately 31.2 million pounds of honey that year.
Honey production in the United States - additional information
The use of honey can be traced back to ancient times, with eight thousand year-old cave paintings depicting humans harvesting wild honey. Recorded history shows that honey has been used as part of foods and drinks, as medicine and as part of sacred rituals by many cultures around the world. In modern times, honey is still sometimes collected from wild bee colonies, but most of the worldwide production comes from domesticated beehives. The leading five worldwide producers alone, China, Turkey, Argentina, Ukraine and the United States, harvest annually a combined 1.2 million metric tons of natural honey.
The yearly per capita honey consumption in the United States ranges between 0.9 and 1.5 kilograms of honey. Other countries where honey consumption per capita per year exceeds one kilogram are Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In 2021, the estimated deliveries of pure honey for domestic food and beverage use in the United States amounted to approximately 241 thousand short tons. In 2021, the total amount of honey produced in the country was an estimated 126.5 million pounds.
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US Department of Agriculture, & Economic Research Service. (March 17, 2023). Top 10 honey producing U.S. states in 2022 (in 1,000 pounds)* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 19, 2024, from https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/
US Department of Agriculture, und Economic Research Service. "Top 10 honey producing U.S. states in 2022 (in 1,000 pounds)*." Chart. March 17, 2023. Statista. Accessed September 19, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/
US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. (2023). Top 10 honey producing U.S. states in 2022 (in 1,000 pounds)*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: September 19, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/
US Department of Agriculture, and Economic Research Service. "Top 10 Honey Producing U.S. States in 2022 (in 1,000 Pounds)*." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Mar 2023, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/
US Department of Agriculture & Economic Research Service, Top 10 honey producing U.S. states in 2022 (in 1,000 pounds)* Statista, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/ (last visited September 19, 2024)
Top 10 honey producing U.S. states in 2022 (in 1,000 pounds)* [Graph], US Department of Agriculture, & Economic Research Service, March 17, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/191996/top-10-honey-producing-us-states/