Or perhaps such a co-op does exist?

We have got one large coop but some of the largest honey producers do not
belong for reasons I will not go into on BEE-L.

You need to (or at least used to) provide the coop with 40,000 pounds of
honey and up per season to belong.

The coop also has agreements with  and does purchase large amounts of
Argentine honey.

 If so, does it do enough to emphasise
that the brand is guaranteed pure USA honey?

 Many packers stick a U.S. only label on their honey but those same packers
I am talking about buy most of the foreign honey. They say all the honey
they sell in the U.S. is bought in the U.S.

A few employees of the above  large packers have said differently to me and
others in private.

Many use a generic label with around six countries of possible honey origin.

Argentina honey producers are waking up and pricing higher which helps our
market. China is a honey dumper and always will be.

Bob

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