http://www.ers.usda.gov/ChartsOfNote/Default.aspx?mode=detail&id=430

*As U.S. honey production plunged, imports jumped sharply in
2011*<http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/SSS/2012/04Apr/SSSM284.pdf>
Thursday, May 03, 2012
The U.S. honey crop was hampered by drought conditions in the South and
heavy rainfall in many northern States in 2011. As a result, domestic honey
production dropped 16 percent in 2011 from 2010 as the number of bee
colonies fell 7.5 percent and yield per colony declined 9 percent. In
total, domestic production fell by 28.1 million pounds of honey, despite
record-high average prices received by honey producers in both 2010 and
2011. The drop in U.S. production, coupled with high domestic honey prices,
increased honey imports to 288.3 million pounds in 2011, twice the amount
imported a decade ago in 2001. The top three foreign suppliers of natural
honey to the United States—Argentina, Vietnam and India—accounted for
two-thirds of total U.S. imported honey in 2011. This chart is found in the
April 2012 Sugar and Sweeteners
Outlook<http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/SSS/2012/04Apr/SSSM284.pdf>,
SSS-M-284.

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