The National Honey Board is a federal research and promotion board under United States Department of Agriculture oversight that conducts research, marketing and promotion programs to help maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets for honey and honey products. 

The National Honey Board is not a regulatory agency nor does it have powers of enforcement. The ten member board, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, represents producers (beekeepers), packers, importers, and a marketing cooperative.

The Board's work, funded by an assessment of one cent per pound on domestic and imported honey, is designed to increase the awareness and use of honey by consumers, the foodservice industry and food manufacturers.

The National Honey Board conducts numerous projects each year to achieve these goals. Here are a few:

• We fund research projects designed to find new and improved uses for honey in foods and other products.
• We offer consumers honey information through recipes and photographs of honey serving ideas that are provided to newspaper and magazine editors across the country.
• The Honey Board provides information for special honey and beekeeping stories that appear in newspapers, the internet, and on radio and television stations.
• We provide honey merchandising materials to honey industry producer-packers, retailers, the foodservice industry and honey handlers. Posters, recipes, a cookbook, stickers, fact sheets… the list goes on and on. For an order form, call the Honey Board office.
• We promote honey overseas, with help from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
• We fund research projects to find ways to maintain the health of honeybee colonies.
• We fund programs to educate chefs on the use of honey.
  

Learn more about the National Honey Board at www.honey.com.

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