Since I am more familiar with the metric system, in my effort to use only
pounds I made a major mistake in the paragraph below:
 
When I refer to:
-275 thousand pounds,  I should have written 275 million pounds.
-352 thousand pounds, I should have written 352 million pounds.
 
Again I apologize for my error.
 
>We didn't get the mites neither into the US nor in South America. At the
>same time (1989-1997), domestic consumption of honey in the US grew from
275
>thousand pounds to 352 thousand pounds (a 28% increase). If you have less
>hives, then you have less production but if at the same time local demand
>goes up it is not surprising you need to import more honey. In 1990 US
>imports of honey were 75,000 pounds, in 1997 more than 160,000 pounds.
 
 
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