2014 Price per pound

[JackM]

So, I have been told I sell my honey too cheap.  I have been.  So researched and found last year's prices, but with inflation and all.........well was thinking on going up to $10 for a pint jar that has 20 oz of honey in it.  Using canning jars.  $1 discount for an empty jar and ring.  This round of honey is blackberry wildflower.  Very fruity flavor.

So what is the going rate this year?

[sterling]

I'm selling mine to cheap I guess cause I'm about sold out. Just sold a customer 10 pints for $80. He also bought a Quart with comb for $22. I haven't had any trouble selling the quarts with comb for $22. Maybe next year $10 for pints, $20 for quarts, and $25 for the comb quarts.

[sc-bee]

So, I have been told I sell my honey too cheap.  I have been.  So researched and found last year's prices, but with inflation and all.........well was thinking on going up to $10 for a pint jar that has 20 oz of honey in it.  Using canning jars.  $1 discount for an empty jar and ring. 

You have not said what too cheap is??? Folks down the road from me sell all they have for 10-12 pt. I just went up to $9 a pint and usually have trouble moving it. I have just not built up the honey market in 10 yrs???

A SC beekeeper is now selling his honey in a chain supermarket. Large local Southern chain (Bi-Lo). His price is $6.50 for a pt of regular or comb. It is labeled raw- pure- etc but I don't think local. I am just curious if he heats it any. I would think he would have too unless he has a consignment deal with the market to pick up crystallized honey. I also would think he buys wholesale and repacks as I can not see him producing enough to meet the need. It is hard to compete with those kind of prices, other than some folks will pay to buy from the hands of the beekeeper. And it is usually on an end cap near the produce section..... I would think that would cost him $$$$

[10framer]

i just stopped doing business with a feed and seed store because the woman working there is buying bulk honey then bottling it and selling it under market. 

[JackM]

Well the wife went and set out yesterday and sold 7 pounds (pints) in about 4 hours.  I was getting $5 last year.

[gailmo]

I put a post on Facebook for my friends a couple of days ago about having a small amount of honey available for sale.  Geesh - had a feeding frenzy within 30 minutes of posting.  Sold out!  I was asking $10 for a 1lb jar.  My husband eats a lot of peanut butter so I save those glass jars and use them for honey.  Thus no jar costs and my friends don't seem to mind the reuse of containers. 

[forrestcav]

when I sold honey last year. I got $5 for the 12oz bears and $7 for 16oz squeeze bottles. I sold all I had and still had people wanting more.

[sc-bee]

Well the wife went and set out yesterday and sold 7 pounds (pints) in about 4 hours.  I was getting $5 last year.

$5 a pint......IMHO toooo cheap!

[sterling]

Well the wife went and set out yesterday and sold 7 pounds (pints) in about 4 hours.  I was getting $5 last year.

a pint should weigh a pound and a half.

[Lburou]

I'm in the middle price wise compared to my bee Club.  Customers tell me I'm under market.  Customers post pictures of the jars on FB, and their friends want local raw honey!  :)

Most in the Club sell a quart for $15-18, one guy I know gets $24 a quart.

1.5 pints @ $15
1 pint @ $11
1/2 pint @ $6
4 oz muth jar $3

[chux]

This is my first year selling honey. I sell pound jars for 8.50. Several folks give me 9.00 and say to keep the change. I sell 2 ounce honey bears for 2.00. They are moving well. Heard a presentation at the state meeting this spring. Beeks are underselling. We have a local product that is in high demand. It is costly to produce the product. Folks around here are happy to have it, and willing to pay a premium price. Where else are they going to find honey local to their area honey? Most of us are the only source, and the public demand is rising. We should be making enough profit to expand and supply for the demand. How many of you good folks have honey that you cant sell? Most of us run out ofsupply before demand is met.

[sc-bee]

Well the wife went and set out yesterday and sold 7 pounds (pints) in about 4 hours.  I was getting $5 last year.

a pint should weigh a pound and a half.

And yes a pint is not a pound the world round when it comes to honey :) More like 22 oz give or take a little.

[JackM]

Well we sell it as a 20 ounce pound of honey.  Each pint jar when full has 20 oz of honey.  When my price was lower, we asked for the canning jar back.  Almost no one returned jars.  So this route seems to work.  If they have a jar they can get a $2 discount which is to their advantage.

I have had folks demand I send them a pint and pay me $20 per pint to cover shipping.  So folks will pay steep prices, not something I would do.

Wife has sold about 12 now and only one person said they could get it for less and she told him to go buy his honey there then.  LOL.

[sc-bee]

A 20 oz pound ...... if it works for you it works  :-D. Just for giggles have you tried weighing a jar. Empty jar and then full jar and do the math. I wager you have closer to a 22oz pound at the proper fill line.

[BeeMaster2]

A 20 oz pound ...... if it works for you it works  :-D. Just for giggles have you tried weighing a jar. Empty jar and then full jar and do the math. I wager you have closer to a 22oz pound at the proper fill line.

I weighed my pints and like you said they were 22 oz. I weighed the quart jars of honey and they were 48 oz. I was expecting it to bee exactly double, 48 oz. not sure why. I probably should check to see if the pint is really 1/2 the quart.
I fill all of the jars to the glass ring.
Jim

[biggraham610]

Well the wife went and set out yesterday and sold 7 pounds (pints) in about 4 hours.  I was getting $5 last year.

a pint should weigh a pound and a half.

X2. G :chop:

[JackM]

No, I put the jar on the scale and zero it out then the honey and it makes it to the first ring at 20 oz every time.  Guess my honey is drier?????

[BeeMaster2]

No, I put the jar on the scale and zero it out then the honey and it makes it to the first ring at 20 oz every time.  Guess my honey is drier?????

Jack
You may want to check the water content of your honey. Water weighs 8# per gallon, honey is 12# per gallon. If it is light, it means you have more water.
Another factor I have noticed is jars that look like they are pint jars but are not.
Jim

[sterling]

I just now filled up two pint mason jars that I buy at the Dollar store. Regular canning jars. Poured them in a mason quart jar and they filled the quart to the bottom of the ring. So two pint mason jars equal a quart. A quart of honey should weigh 3#. half of a quart is a pint and it should weigh 1 1/2#.
I don't have a scale to weigh but the volume works on mason jars. The water content may make a difference in weight. as has been said.

[RichBees]

Hello. I find this topic interesting because it is often difficult to determine the price of honey.
I sell my honey not by weight but quantity. For now, I sell my honey at about $13 per 75cl bottle and my customers appreciate it because of its good quality. Although, new customers complain it is expensive but join others to appreciate the effort I take to give them the best- something better than what they used buy.
My honey market has not stopped growing exponentially since I started beekeeping in July 2009 with two hive and I'm close to two hundred hives now.
So, I encourage us to maintain good quality and market and price will be under our control. But please don't hike the price, unnecessarily.
Thanks.