USDA to measure quarterly bee colony loss
HARRISBURG, PA -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics
Service (NASS) will be collecting information about colony loss in the honey industry throughout
the United States. The next Quarterly Colony Loss survey will be conducted during April of
2025. This survey collects information about colony inventory and loss from more than 400
producers with honeybee colonies in the Northeastern Region of the United States.
“The information from these surveys directly impacts our region’s beekeepers and honey
producers,” said David Knopf, regional director of the NASS Northeastern Regional Field Office.
“Beekeepers and producers can use the survey results when making business plans and
marketing decisions. Cooperative Extensions use the data to provide needed outreach and
education and State Departments and Agencies of Agriculture use the information to set
insurance values,” added Knopf.
To ensure all survey participants have an opportunity to respond, NASS interviewers will contact
producers who do not respond by mail or online to conduct interviews. NASS safeguards the
privacy of all respondents and publishes only aggregate data, ensuring that no individual
operation or producer can be identified.
Results of these quarterly surveys are published annually in the Honey Bee Colonies report,
which will be available on August 1, 2025. These and all NASS reports are available online at
www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/. For more information, call the NASS Northeastern Regional
Field Office at (800) 498-1518
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