Honey prices on the rise? What's a jar go for in your area?

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Posted: 12/17/2016 10:35:49 AM EDT

I stopped into the local hardware store yesterday for a few things and I sometimes pick up a 1lb jar of locally produced honey, but not this time. I was shocked to see the $13.99 sticker to the point where I had to question the cashier girl about it. She claimed production was way down and that's the going rate. I know the price was $7.99 a jar last year, which I thought was a bit high, but acceptable because I like supporting a local business and industry. This is simply too much though and I passed.

So what is the going rate for local honey in your area?

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:38:01 AM EDT

[#1]

Couldn't tell ya.
My wife buys the honey to help with her allergies.

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:39:21 AM EDT

[#2]

$16 per quart for local raw.

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:39:30 AM EDT

[#3]

I don't know I'll have to go out and ask the bees what they want per jar.

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:39:39 AM EDT

[#4]

Depends on the quality.
Around here I can still get a pound of cheap clover honey at Walmart for less than $5, or I can go to the supermarket and get a pound of better stuff for just under $10, or I can go to a natural grocer and pay out-the-nose.....

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:44:52 AM EDT

[#5]

When we do sell its about 12 -15 bucks a quart. I have over 100 lbs put up in the basement. I cant ask my bees what price they want till spring. Its -9 and their sleeping.

Posted: 12/17/2016 10:58:35 AM EDT

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When we do sell its about 12 -15 bucks a quart. I have over 100 lbs put up in the basement. I cant ask my bees what price they want till spring. Its -9 and their sleeping.

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So possibly this is a seasonal shortage and price increase?

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:00:52 AM EDT

[#7]

IDK, the wife gets it from some friend of hers that has a beekeeper husband.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:01:14 AM EDT

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Couldn't tell ya.
My wife buys the honey to help with her allergies.

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I habenalways heard its good for allergies. Does she do a tablespoon a day or something? I like to get "raw" honey just cause I think it tastes better.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:06:40 AM EDT

[#9]

This is just the second season we have had bees. I built two hives, and will make a coulle more next year.
We only collected from a couple frames, and got about five pints.

And waiting for the guy who denies CCD or problems eixist with viroa mites.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:13:27 AM EDT

[#10]

13 bucks a quart here. Keeper lives about 1.5 miles up the road from me.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:14:07 AM EDT

[#11]

Bees aren't as plentiful around here as they were ten years ago.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:15:45 AM EDT

[#12]

The small local guys are still having problems keeping them alive. I had 45 hives, now down to 12 .Lower per hive yield means higher prices to them. The drought and pesticides are killing us.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:18:53 AM EDT

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This is just the second season we have had bees. I built two hives, and will make a coulle more next year.
We only collected from a couple frames, and got about five pints.

And waiting for the guy who denies CCD or problems eixist with viroa mites.

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I don't have mites but still say CCD is caused by all the crap sprayed everywhere.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:20:22 AM EDT

[#14]

I only buy locally produced
Too much adulteration with honey raised outside the country...

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:23:58 AM EDT

[#15]

I got a starter hive coming in April, the price went up $40 from last year.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:24:55 AM EDT

[#16]

Our local guys have honey at $15 for 2lb.

But they have their own bees and get someone else to bottle it.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:26:44 AM EDT

[#17]

3.99 for 10 oz at Aldi's

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:29:14 AM EDT

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I only buy locally produced
Too much adulteration with honey raised outside the country...

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This. Only buying Texas honey. If you buy from one of the big commercial companies, it can have 10 different countries of origin listed on the label.

You can bitch about the chemicals we use in the United States all day long. When it comes from South America or the Far East, good luck.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:31:10 AM EDT

[#19]

My friend's wife gives me honey for free.

...well I did help her make mead with it once.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:35:46 AM EDT

[#20]

I get mine for free.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:42:43 AM EDT

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3.99 for 10 oz at Aldi's

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Just make sure it is 100% honey. A lot of the budget stuff is corn syrup, flavored with honey.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:45:37 AM EDT

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http://abc7chicago.com/food/-60-tons-of-honey-illegally-imported-from-china-seized-by-federal-authorities-in-chicago/1325478/

http://www.businessinsider.com/one-third-of-honey-in-the-us-may-be-an-illegal-and-dangerous-import-from-china-2012-2

But it keeps the cost down!

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:49:36 AM EDT

[#23]

No clue. I get it straight from the hive.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:50:53 AM EDT

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http://www.businessinsider.com/one-third-of-honey-in-the-us-may-be-an-illegal-and-dangerous-import-from-china-2012-2

But it keeps the cost down!<img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_confused.gif border=0 align=middle>

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1/3 my ass.

I saw an informal study that suggested 50-80% of SueBee was fake China import honey.

This is why I started a couple hives of my own. I have about 40 lbs to last me til the next harvest.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:55:58 AM EDT

[#25]

This past season was great down south.
I am in contact with commercial guys up north and they say the same thing.
We still sell ours for $7/lb locally although in New Orleans, the same honey gets 8 or a bit more.
There's a lot of emotion connected with buying honey in some circles. People buy the story more than the honey.
Remember, if you don't know your beekeeper, you don't really know where the honey is coming from.

Posted: 12/17/2016 11:58:32 AM EDT

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Depends on the quality.
Around here I can still get a pound of cheap clover honey at Walmart for less than $5, or I can go to the supermarket and get a pound of better stuff for just under $10, or I can go to a natural grocer and pay out-the-nose.....

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Honey Laundering

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:02:04 PM EDT

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I got a starter hive coming in April, the price went up $40 from last year.

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Our nucs went down. $130 this year.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:04:48 PM EDT

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Remember, if you don't know your beekeeper, you don't really know where the honey is coming from.

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This is the best saying yet!!

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:06:12 PM EDT

[#29]

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This past season was great down south.
I am in contact with commercial guys up north and they say the same thing.
We still sell ours for $7/lb locally although in New Orleans, the same honey gets 8 or a bit more.
There's a lot of emotion connected with buying honey in some circles. People buy the story more than the honey.
Remember, if you don't know your beekeeper, you don't really know where the honey is coming from.

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Where in NOLA area to buy local honey? I have purchased some at Jefferson Feed, but wondering where else I can get it?

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:08:13 PM EDT

[#30]

Dude, shut up before the neckbeards proclaim "PEAK HONEY!" and drive over to WalMart to clear the place out.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:09:35 PM EDT

[#31]

I got 24oz of Colorado honey for $8 the other day.

Seems a little more expensive, but not much.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:16:49 PM EDT

[#32]

My wife is a beekeeper. She said that many times store bought honey is from another country. What is worse, we have our local Rural King in Illinois selling so called local honey. However, there have some belief that the guy goes to Indiana and buys it, brings it back and sells it as local.......you just don't know. Know the beekeeper.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:17:20 PM EDT

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Dude, shut up before the neckbeards proclaim "PEAK HONEY!" and drive over to WalMart to clear the place out.

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You can have all the WalMart honey you want. Nobody knows where it comes from or what's in it.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:31:30 PM EDT

[#34]

$14.57 for a 3lb jar.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:42:06 PM EDT

[#35]

Local raw 5 lb = 1/2 gallon 20 bucks. .

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:51:49 PM EDT

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Honey Laundering

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Wow, that's scary!

What's to stop a local bee keeper from filling his jars with Chinese honey and marking it up 3x?

ETA: it looks like I was right that the honey was way overpriced and my days of buying honey from that place are over.

Posted: 12/17/2016 12:58:25 PM EDT

[#37]

Not sure if this is market price , but my friend gave my 3 pounds for $30.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:05:19 PM EDT

[#38]

Some friend. 3lbs here is no more than $18-$20 tops !

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:09:22 PM EDT

[#39]

Wouldn't know. I steal all of mine straight from the bees.

We generally sell it for $15-20 a quart...

Eta: A quart jar is about 2 pounds of honey.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:10:37 PM EDT

[#40]

To all of you.
Look around on your local beekeeping boards. You should be able to find a neighbor that sells that you didn't know about!

It might be a little hard to find right now as most of us give away any extra we have as Christmas presents.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:14:06 PM EDT

[#41]

One of my doctors keeps hives and she hooks me up. Awesome local honey.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:15:26 PM EDT

[#42]

Local honey was $12 a quart at the bar last night. I tried some, it was very good.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:19:17 PM EDT

[#43]

Up here it's between $8.00 - $10.00 per pound. I would have to sell a lot to recover the costs of our bees and woodenware. We have many thousands invested into our growing apiary.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:28:50 PM EDT

[#44]

I think I paid $7 at the farmers market for a pint last time.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:57:53 PM EDT

[#45]

I usually just give mine away. I took 26 quarts out of 2 supers this summer. I gave some to an Arfcommer, the guy at the trash transfer station, the mail lady, and some hams.

Everyone thinks the best thing about having bees is getting honey. The best thing about having bees is your garden production is doubled without any additional work.

Posted: 12/17/2016 2:59:04 PM EDT

[#46]

$11 a pint for orange blossom honey straight from the grove.

Posted: 12/17/2016 3:04:41 PM EDT

[#47]

Beekeepers are getting less than $2 a pound, has dropped since 2 years ago. There are 12 pounds in a gallon of honey, we sell 1/2 gallon plastic bottles for $15, quart is $8.

Posted: 12/17/2016 3:05:58 PM EDT

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Wouldn't know. I steal all of mine straight from the bees. <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_abused.gif border=0 align=middle>

We generally sell it for $15-20 a quart...

Eta: A quart jar is about 2 pounds of honey.

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A quart is 4 pounds of honey. A quart of water is 2 pounds. 55 gallon barrel of honey goes over 700 pounds.

Posted: 12/17/2016 3:06:44 PM EDT

[#49]

A good friend of mine is a beekeeper. He has around 20 hives.

I buy a 5 gallon bucket every year for $150.

Posted: 12/17/2016 4:48:53 PM EDT

[#50]

We sell ours for $10 a pound. Lost 2 of our 3 hives this year though.

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