For those of you that buy or sell honey, what is the price per half pint, pint, quart, gallon and 5 gallons, or does honey go by the pound?

Keith

In my area of Pa, quarts ( 3 pound ) sell between a $14 to $21 range. I’m at $19.

My wife pays $35 for a half gallon.

The last I bought I got at a Flee Market, for $35 a gallon.

I've never seen it sold by the pound. Maybe for bulk sales. A quart jar is roughly 3#

Keith if you are going to sell honey I'd check out your state ag rules. Likely there are some cottage/home kitchen rules that apply. From a broad perspective, the fed requirements are quite explicit regarding what's on label, size print, etc. Sold by weight with pounds and metric listed

Can't personally help with pricing as I sell none bottled. In general most of the local hobbyist crowd tend to aim for selling around $5-8 a pound but it widely fluctuates across the state.

We pay 25 for a half gallon. 22.50 if you bring the jug back for a refill. Amish pour it from 5 gallon buckets. This not clover honey.

I’m really surprised by some of these prices listed. I’ve had bee guys tell me that I’m giving away my honey at $19 a quart. That say they won’t sell it for less than $10 a pound. That’s $30 a quart. I could sell honey at $30 a quart…..if I only had to peddle 10 quarts a year. But to sell a bigger volume of honey, you have to stay with what the local markets dictate. I am constantly looking at honey prices at farm and flea markets, stores, and roadside markets. I’ve kept bees since 1974, and fortunately , I’ve got a lot of loyal, repeat customers

Amish and Mennonite are asking $16/qt. Some other local farmstands are almost double that

I sell at $20 lb. Which admittedly is outrageous. However 1) that's about what all the small farmers market types sell theirs for around here. 2) I'm only selling honey from a few hives so it isn't much. 3) I sell out within a few weeks or a month at the longest.

I just do this as a little hobby. When I'm pulling honey in the summer and sweating it out I do think to myself that I really wouldn't want to do this for less than $20/lb.

Last gallon I bought back in March was 30.

$21 for a 4 pounder $24 for 5 lbs and $48 for a gallon,this is raw honey the GOOD STUFF.....The containers are expensive to buy even at bulk.

Honey is sold by the pound.

Honey is heavier than water by 25% so a pint jar holds 20 ounces of honey and a quart 40 ounces. Standard bottles and jars are listed by water weight/volume.

Specialty honey jars such as the bears, queenlines, classics, or paragon chunk honey are sized for exact honey weight.

Bulk honey is sold using standard containers and weight is 12lbs per gallon so a five gallon bucket, or older tins, is 60lbs and 55 gallon drums are 660lbs.

The going rate for hobbiest front door sales in most areas is $10 per pound but all markets are local and I know of foks getting 15-20 per pound.

This is for extracted honey. Chunk honey, extracted with a 2"×4" piece of comb, brings a few dollars more, 2-5, in markets where it is preferred like down here in the south. Cut comb and section honey is a specialty market/product and commands a premium, usually double by weight.

Bulk honey goes for less, much less, per pound.

If you want the mason jar look but want to price by the pound you can find 12 ounce mason jars but they don't make a true 24 ounce one that shares the same lids a standard mason.

I sell all I produce for $30/quart, $15/pints. I could probably get more. I haven't decided on prices for this year. Last few years I have produced between 600 and 800 pounds but this year it has been a good year so expecting maybe 1200 pounds. I always sell out in about a month and turn many people away when it is gone.