UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE  (EDITED without permission)
DATE: January 12,  1998
Fruit and Vegetable Division
2015 South I st Street - RM 4
Yakima, WA 96903
 
MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1997
 
Prices paid to beekeepers for extracted, unprocessed honey in major
producing states by packers, handlers  & other large users, cents per
pound, f.o.b. or delivered nearby, containers exchanged or returned,
prompt delivery and payment unless otherwise stated.
 
    ARKANSAS
               - Soybean, extra light amber, 69-70 cents
 
    CALIFORNIA
              - Alfalfa/Mixed Flowers, extra light amber, 63 cents
              - Blue Curl, white, 72 cents
              - Blue Curl, extra light amber, 63 cents
              - Clover, extra light amber, 75 cents
              - Cotton/Alfalfa/Buckwheat, extra light amber, 60-61
              - Cotton/Alfalfa/Buckwheat, light amber, 60 cents
              - Mixed Flowers, extra fight amber, 73 cents
              - Mixed Flowers, light amber, 59 - 60 cents
              - Orange, white, 81 cents (delivered to east coast)
              - Sage, white, 72 - 81 cents (higher price indicates
                        honey delivered  to east coast)
              - Sage, extra fight amber, 63 cents
              - Sage, light amber, 61 cents
 
    FLORIDA
              - Brazilian Pepper, fight amber, 65 cents
 
    IDAHO
            - Alfalfa, extra light amber, 65 - 70 cents
            - Alfalfa, light amber,--67-cents - -
            - Buckwheat, amber, 61 cents
            - Buckwheat, dark amber, 55 - 61 cents
 
    INDIANA        - Wildflowers, medium amber, 86 cents
 
    LOUISIANANA  - Chinese Tallow, fight amber, 65 cents
 
    MICHIGAN       - Mixed Flowers, medium amber, 90 cents
                           - Napweed, medium amber, 86 cents
 
    MINNESOTA     - Clover, white, 78 cents
                            - Clover/Sunflowers, white, 70 cents
 
    MONTANA       - Alfalfa, white, 74 cents
                           - Clover, white, 68 - 76 cents
                           . Clover, extra light amber, 74 cents
                           - Sage, extra light amber, 76 cents
 
    NEBRASKA      - Alfalfa, white, 75 cents
                             - Cloven(Alfalfa, white, 68 - 70 cents
 
    N. DAKOTA      - Clover, white, 68 - 75 cents
                            - Clover, extra light amber, 63 cents
 
    OHIO                - Clover, white, 75 cents
 
    OREGON          - Alfalfa/Mixed Flowers, light amber, 61 cents
                            - Alfalfa/Mixed Flowers, amber, 59 cents
 
   S. DAKOTA       - Clover, white, 70 - 75 cents
                            - Clover, light amber, 86 cents
 
   TEXAS               - Chinese Tallow, light amber, 65 - 70 cents
 
   WASHINGTON    - Carrot, light amber, 61 cents (small lot)
                             - Clover, white, 72 - 75 cents
                             . Loostrife, light amber, 63 cents
                             - Loostrife, amber, 59 - 61 cents
                             - Mint/Wildflowers, amber, 59 cents
 
                             - Sage, extra light amber, 65 cents
                                                (small lot)
                             - Vetch, white, 73 cents (small lot)
 
   WYOMING          - Clover/Alfalfa, white, 75 cents
 
Prices paid to Canadian beekeepers for unprocessed bulk honey by
packers and importers in U.S. currency, f.o.b. shipping point,
containers included unless otherwise stated.  Duty and crossing
charges  extra.  US-Cents per pound.
 
   MANITOBA       - floral source unknown, extra fight amber, 75 cents
 
Prices paid to importers for bulk honey, duty paid, containers
included, cents per pound ex-dock or point of entry unless otherwise
stated.
 
   EAST COAST
   ARGENTINA     - Mixed Flowers, white, 64 - 67
                          - Mixed Flowers, extra light amber, 62
                          - Mixed Flowers, light amber, 62 cents
 
   WEST COAST
   MEXICO           - Mixed Flowers, light amber, 58 cents
 
 
CALIFORNIA BEESWAX MARKET SITUATION --- DECEMBER, 1997
      (unbleached, raw beeswax, delivered to handlers's warehouse)
 
Offerings of wax were about normal during December but some handlers
still have warehouses full of wax they purchased last fall.  Orders of
wax products were fairly good during October and November but
then declined in December.  Prices being offered to producers were
about steady for light colored wax and slightly lower for the darker
wax.
 
Prices in California for light wax ranged from   $1.70 - 1.80.
Dark colored wax was being purchased at   $1.50 - 1.60 per pound.
 
*HONEY MARKET REPORT was ripped off the United Stated Department
of Agriculture without permission to use. History of US Honey Market,
not necessarily today's market. PLEASE NOT THERE IS AND HAS NOT
BEEN A MARKET FOR "ORGANIC" HONEY or have I in 40 years ever seen
a price quoted for "ORGANIC" differentiates from any other bulk honey. This
would indicate that the market is very small and the term "ORGANIC" does
not differentiate in the value of all Honey which by definition and law
must be
pure.
 
The world honey market today is so thin compared to other world commodities
that even the quoted prices for bulk honey as provided by the USDA and others
is at times questionable and does not represent all bulk sales especially on
the import side. Interesting to note that the NHB assessments collected on
imported honey late into the summer far exceeded that collected for domestic
production.
 
ttul, the OLd Drone
 
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