My hypothesis was that honey production was affected by two factors: sagging profit in honey production and increased profit in pollination. This is clear enough in the first graph. Despite increasing honey production, revenues were falling presumably due to falling prices, perhaps caused by overproduction. 

Then a spike in almond pollination fees could easily have led to lower honey production: more colonies moved to pollination instead of honey production. I did not go looking for a correlation and then tried to explain it. I already had a hypothesis in mind and then looked to see if figures might support it. Besides, so what. 

PLB

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