ND: #1 -- Annual Update on North Dakota Honey Production -- Nothing To Do With the Bakken

Link to Bismarck Tribune.

Data points (some numbers rounded):

• North Dakota: #1 in honey production in 2011.
• 8th consecutive year #1
• 30% drop in production
• 33 million pounds

• California: #2
• 18 million pounds

• South Dakota: #3
• 17 million pounds

Nationally, honey production dropped 15% to 150 million pounds.